Privilegia Sancti Officii
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Country
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IT
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Name of institution (English)
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Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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Language of name of institution
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ita
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Contact information: postal address
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Piazza del Sant’Uffizio 11, 00193 Rome
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Contact information: phone number
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0039 0669895945
0039 0669895945
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Contact information: email
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archive@cfaith.va
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Reference number
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ACDF, S.O. Privilegia
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Privileges of the Holy Office
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Title (official language of the state)
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Privilegia Sancti Officii
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Language of title
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lat
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Creator / accumulator
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Congregazione del Sant'Ufficio dell'Inquisizione
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Date(s)
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1699/1939
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Language(s)
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lat
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Extent
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59 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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The Privilegia Sancti Offici series is part of the Leges et Ordinationes section of the Archivum Sancti Officii Romani (Roman Holy Office Archive) fonds. It contains records concerning the competences, obligations, faculties, appointments, privileges and oaths sworn in the Holy Office. The series also comprises records on matters generally concerning the internal life of the Dicastery and its personnel, as well as events of the Holy Office palace. In this series, it is possible to find various information and documents regarding privileges granted to members of the Jewish communities of the Papal States, especially regarding the three main ghettos of the States: Rome, Ancona and Ferrara.
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Archival history
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As part of the Leges et Ordinationes section, this series results from the reorganisation by subject of the Roman Holy Office Archive undertaken in the second half of the 18th century, which separated criminal and doctrinal issues. The first volume of the series, containing documents from the origins of the Congregazione del Sant'Ufficio until 1668, is missing. Since 1905, the Privilegia Sancti Officii series also includes the oaths taken by members and staff of the Sant'Ufficio, which were until then systematically gathered in the Iuramenta series.
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(source: SIUSA Archivi Inquisitoriali Italia)
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The history of the Roman Inquisition and its archive begins with the appointment by Paul III of a commission of cardinals, which took place on July 21, 1542 with the Bull "Licet ab initio". This congregation was intended to defend the Church from heresies, to maintain the integrity of the faith and to identify and condemn errors and false teachings. When Paul IV died in 1559, the Roman people sacked and burnt the first seat of the Inquisition, located in via di Ripetta, causing the loss of much of the original documentation.
In 1566, Pius V established the seat of the congregation and its archive in the current palace. Initially, the archiving of the documentation was determined by the procedural activity carried out by the congregation. In the second half of the 18th century, a reorganisation by subject was undertaken, separating the criminal issues from the doctrinal ones and creating the series that still compose the archive today. During the 19th century, the Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede was subject to various movements and suffered considerable dispersions. With the union of Rome to the French Empire in 1809, it was transported to Paris by order of Napoleon. For the return of the archives to Rome in 1816, the Apostolic Delegate was mandated to destroy the parts of the documentation not strictly essential to administrative activity.
The criminal series were almost entirely burnt and only a few important trials were saved. During the Roman Republic of 1849, the complex of documents underwent further transfers and losses and only in 1868 the part of the documentation necessary for the current administration was relocated to the palace of the Holy Office, while the oldest closed series remained stored in the Apostolic Palace until 1901. Then, this archival material was recovered and rearranged, forming the so-called Stanza Storica. This has remained the main structure of this archive to the present day. The Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede was open for consultation by scholars in 1998.
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(source: Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede official Website)
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Finding aids
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Indexes: 1. Priv. S.O. Index (1669-1800); 2. Indice della Rubricella «Priv.S.O.» (1814-1924).
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Rubrics: 1. Privilegia S.O. (1801-1825); 2. Privilegia S.O. (1814-1890); 3. Privilegia S.O. (1814-1924); 4. Privilegia S.O. (1925-1939).
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"Inventario generale Shades 6 Ecclesia" (Software for Historical Archives Description – Ecclesia) only available in the reading room
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Author of the description
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Andrea Cicerchia, 2022
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Bibliography
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Arnold, Claus. 2004. “The Archive of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (ACDF): An Initial Overview of Its Holdings and Scholarship to Date.” In The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews. Contexts, Sources and Perspectives, edited by Stephan Wendehorst, Brill, 9:155–68. Studies in European Judaism. Leiden-Boston.
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Coneys Wainwright, Matthew, and Emily Michelson, eds. 2021. A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, volume 95. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
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Groppi, A., ed. 2014. Gli Abitanti Del Ghetto Di Roma: La Descriptio Hebreorum Del 1733. Prima edizione. I Libri Di Viella 187. Roma: Viella.
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Mazur, Peter. 2016. Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy. 1 [edition]. Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 22. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
