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Inquisition archives worldwide

Spain:

Archivo Histórico Nacional (sección Inquisición), Madrid

http://www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/AHN/index.html
Mexico:

Archivo de la Nación (fondo de Instituciones coloniales), Mexico City

http://www.agn.gob.mx/index.html

Archivo General de la Nación, Lima

http://www.archivogeneral.gob.pe/
Chile:

Archivo Nacional (fondos Inquisición, Simancas and Sala Medina), Santiago

http://wisis.archivonacional.cl/iah/E/bases.htm http://www.dibam.cl/archivo_nacional/
Portugal:

Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon

http://antt.dgarq.gov.pt/
Italy:

Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Doctrina Fide and Propaganda Fidei), Rome

http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cevang/archivio/index.html

Archivio di Stato and Archivio della Curia Patriarcale, Venice

http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/UCBAWEB/ricerca.php?nome=VENEZIA http://www.archiviostoricodelpatriarcatodivenezia.it/patrimonio/archivi.html

Archivio Arcieviscovile, Udine

http://www.archiviodiocesano.it/

Archivio di Stato, Modena

http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/ASMO/

Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna

http://www2.comune.bologna.it/bologna/archigin/

Archivio Storico Diocesano, Naples

http://www.culturacampania.rai.it/site/it-it/Patrimonio_Culturale/Biblioteche/Scheda/biblioteca_dell'archivio_storico_diocesano_.html

Other significant inquisition-related collections

USA:

University of Pennsylvania, Henry Charles Lea Library, Philadelphia PA

http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/lea/

Newberry Library, Chicago IL

http://www.newberry.org/

Indiana University, Lilly Library, Bloomington IN

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.php

University of California-Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Berkeley CA

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati OH

http://huc.edu/libraries/CN/
Spain:

Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

http://www.bne.es/es/Inicio/

Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid

http://www.rah.es/

Archivo General, Simancas

http://www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/AGS/index.html

Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona

http://www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/ACA/index.html
Peru:

Biblioteca Nacional and Museo de la Inquisición y del Congreso, Lima

http://www.bnp.gob.pe/portalbnp/ http://www.congreso.gob.pe/museo.htm
Chile:

Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago

http://www.dibam.cl/biblioteca_nacional/
Portugal:

Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon

http://www.bnportugal.pt/

Biblioteca Pública Municipal, Porto

http://www.cm-porto.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=cmp.stories/263

Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital, Evora

http://www.evora.net/bpe/bibliografia.htm
Brazil:

Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro

http://www.bn.br/portal/
Italy:

Vatican Library, Rome

http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_library/

Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome

http://www.casanatense.it/

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/

Archivio di Stato, Florence

http://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it/nuovosito/
France:

Bibliothèque National, Paris

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html
Great Britain:

British Library, London

http://www.bl.uk/

(also available on microfilm at the University of Notre Dame)

Ireland:

Trinity College (Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Manuscripts), Dublin

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/

(also available on microfilm at the University of Notre Dame)

Denmark:

Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen

http://www.kb.dk/en/

Other online resources for inquisition studies:

  • A recent essay by Jaqueline Vassallo, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) on Spanish and colonial inquisition archives:

    http://www.asocarchi.cl/DOCS/128.pdf
  • The University of Michigan's "Vatican Archives Project":

    http://bentley.umich.edu/academic/vatican/
  • Saint Louis University in St. Louis MO has copies of many Vatican Library materials readily available on microfilm:

    http://libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/
  • The recent opening of the Vatican Archives is described in Anne Jacobson Schutte, "Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio: The Opening of the Roman Inquisition's Central Archive" in Perspectives (May 1999), online at:

    www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/1999/9905/9905arc1.cfm
  • The "Galileo Project" at Rice University:

    http://galileo.rice.edu/chr/inquisition.html
  • The "Witchcraft Collection" at Cornell University:

    http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/
  • International Society for Inquisition Studies:

    http://www.inquisition-studies.org/index.html

Selected print bibliography:

  • Charles Molinier, L'Inquisition dans le Midi de la France au XIIIe et au XIVe siècle: ètude sur les sources de son histoire (Paris 1880).
  • Emil Van der Vekene, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Historiae Sanctae Inquisitionis (1966; repr. 3 vols. Vaduz 1982-92).
  • Gustav Henningsen, "The Archives and the Historiography of the Spanish Inquisition" in ibid. et al. (eds.), The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe (Dekalb 1986), pp. 54-78.
  • Miguel Áviles, Josè Martínez Millán & Virgilio Pinto, "El Archivo del Consejo de la Inquisición" in Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 81 (1978), pp. 177-518.
  • Renè Millar Carvacho, "El archivo del Santo Oficio de Lima y la documentación inquisitorial existente en Chile" in Revista de la Inquisición 6 (1997), pp. 101-116.
  • Charles Amiel, "The Archives of the Portuguese Inquisition: a brief survey" in Gustav Henningsen et al. (eds.), The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe (Dekalb 1986), pp. 79-99.
  • John Tedeschi, "The Dispersed Archives of the Roman Inquisition" in Gustav Henningsen et al. (eds.), The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe (Dekalb 1986), pp. 13-32.
  • Patricia Jobe, "Inquisitorial Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: A Preliminary Handlist" in Gustav Henningsen et al. (eds.), The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe (Dekalb 1986), pp. 33-53.
  • John Tedeschi, "Florentine Documents for a History of the Index of Prohibited Books" in ibid., The Prosecution of Heresy: Collected Studies on the Inquisition in Early Modern Italy. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991.
  • Enrique Llamas, Documentación Inquisitorial. Manuscritos españoles del siglo XVI existentes en el Museo Britanico (Madrid 1975).
  • Gustav Henningsen, "La Colección de Moldenhawer en Copenhague" in Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 80 (1977), pp. 209-269.

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