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Legal Sciences Collection

  • The Collection
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  • Conservation and Cataloguing
  • Promotion
  • Studies and Research Projects

Image: Alessandro Tartagni,Commentaria in I. & II.
Digesti Veteris partem, vol. 1, Venice,
Lucantonio Giunta, 1593 (Law Library,
ANTICO L4 Armadio 5 GF-ANAST 05; origin: Giovanni Antonio Guerrieri), c. A1r (title page).

The collection contains almost 1700 volumes, whose dates of publication span from the 16th to the 20th century, and it was formed both thanks to purchases on the antiques market recommended by department lecturers, and through donations. It is common to find ex-libris and other traces in the books that indicate past owners of the volumes, which are often attributable to acquisitions of private collections: this is the case, for example, of the books that belonged to Senator Giovanni Martinelli (1841-1919), a former Chancellor of the University of Ferrara, which were received by the library in the 1950s.

In the collection, which also includes two manuscripts and several manifestos, there is no shortage of works by authors from Ferrara or who studied in the city; along with these are publications on local topics, in some cases published here in Ferrara. Some of the oldest are Legendario e vita et miracoli by Santo Maurelio (Ferrara, Francesco Rossi, 1570), the Tractatus clausularum instrumentalium by Bartolomeo Bertazzoli (Venice, Fioravante Prati, 1598), the two volumes of Commentariorum ad statuta Ferrariae by Ercole Piganti (Ferrara, Francesco Suzzi, 1650-1651) andEditto sopra la guardia del Po in occasione d'escrescenza by Tommaso Ruffo, published in Ferrara in the "Press of the Holy Apostolic Chamber" in 1728.

The collection is found in the Law Library, in Palazzo Trotti-Mosti.

 

Owners of pieces in the collection

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The collection is kept at the Law Library.

The volumes that make up the collection are ineligible for external loans, but it is possible to consult them in the library, upon request, made by telephone (+39 0532 455621), email or through the online catalogue.

Rules for consultation

In parallel with its establishment and gradual development, the collection was also involved in the transfers carried out in the Law Library, finally ending up in its current location at Palazzo Trotti-Mosti towards the end of the 1980s.

Here, the collection remained in a space next to the administrative offices of the department until 2019, when it was transferred to room L4 of the Library, where it is still found today.

Starting in 2018, some pieces from the collection underwent conservative restoration, performed by qualified professional conservators, on the basis of projects authorised by the relevant regional authorities.

The cataloguing of the collection in the SBN (National Library Service) was carried out starting in the early 2000s, thanks to the help of an intern specialising in the cataloguing of ancient books who collaborated with the library. The work also involved the description of the main characteristics of the pieces and the identification of their owners and origins.

The volumes are located in the ANTICO section of the library where they are kept.

 

With the Art Bonus, you can support projects for ancient book restoration at the University of Ferrara.

Audiovisual

2020 - Library donations. Law Library (length: 2 minutes and 40 seconds)

2020 - The historical collections. Law Library (length: 2 minutes and 50 seconds)

Video in Italian Sign Language (LIS) made thanks to collaboration from the Equal Opportunities and Disability Policy Coordination, the E-Learning and Multimedia Services Office and AIDUS (Association for the Inclusion of Hearing and Deaf People).

2019 - Through ancient papers and parchments: A journey of restoration

Result of the project Video-story of a restoration (2018-2019); the video-documentary illustrates the restoration of the first volume of Commentaria eruditissima by jurist Felino Sandeo (Lyon, 1548), a piece belonging to the university's Legal Sciences Collection.

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2016 - Promoting the treasures of the University of Ferrara - Cataloguing an ancient book

These videos have been made thanks to cooperation between the University of Ferrara Library System and se@unife (University of Ferrara Centre for Technologies for Communication, Innovation and Distance Learning), and the collaboration of the Emilia-Romagna Institute for Artistic, Cultural and Natural Heritage (IBACN) and Franco Antolini's Restauro Libri firm (Ferrara).

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To recommend studies or research projects on the collection or pieces from it, please write to biblioteca.giurisprudenza@unife.it.