Publication Date:
2018
abstract:
The convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie was founded in 1422 by San Bernardino
in visit to the city of Bergamo. Like all observant Franciscan monasteries, the institution
strongly permeated the moral, political and cultural life of the city, soon integrating
itself into the urban context, opening a school for the friars and two of different
levels for the children, until the date of its suppression, in 1810. Unlike other
illustrious monasteries and convents in Bergamo, it does not seem to have remained
a great trace of convent delle Grazie, in terms. of archival documentation,
and this has made the convent’s contribution to the history of the city and of
thought slipped into the background.
However, few data in some manuscripts have allowed us to reconstruct, slowly
aggregating around themselves data that were originally insignificant or obscure,
the story of a rich library that knows no cesure between manuscript books and ancient
printed books. What emerges is the partial reconstruction of a library now dispersed
and refracted in various places and locations, which clearly shows its function
as support for an intense and stimulating cultural and pastoral activity. The
contribution presents the descriptions of the 97 volumes traced, including 16 manuscripts
and 39 incunabula
in visit to the city of Bergamo. Like all observant Franciscan monasteries, the institution
strongly permeated the moral, political and cultural life of the city, soon integrating
itself into the urban context, opening a school for the friars and two of different
levels for the children, until the date of its suppression, in 1810. Unlike other
illustrious monasteries and convents in Bergamo, it does not seem to have remained
a great trace of convent delle Grazie, in terms. of archival documentation,
and this has made the convent’s contribution to the history of the city and of
thought slipped into the background.
However, few data in some manuscripts have allowed us to reconstruct, slowly
aggregating around themselves data that were originally insignificant or obscure,
the story of a rich library that knows no cesure between manuscript books and ancient
printed books. What emerges is the partial reconstruction of a library now dispersed
and refracted in various places and locations, which clearly shows its function
as support for an intense and stimulating cultural and pastoral activity. The
contribution presents the descriptions of the 97 volumes traced, including 16 manuscripts
and 39 incunabula
Iris type:
3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico
Keywords:
manoscritti francescani, biblioteche francescane, storia delle biblioteche, manoscritti, Bergamo, S. Maria delle Grazie; Conventi francescani; Osservanza
francescana; Iincunaboli; Paleografia; codicologia
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