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Archive

Archive of the Hellenic Institute of Venice

The Archive of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice is one of the most valuable cultural assets of the institution. It consists of archival documents dating from 1498 to 1954 and relating to the history of the Greek Brotherhood in the city of Tenagona and the entire Venetian-occupied Hellenism (Stato da Mar). The approximately one thousand registers, hundreds of files and loose documents are kept, from the beginning of the 17th century until today, in the small room (camerino) next to the imposing Sala del Capitolo, where the flourishing Brotherhood once met. In 1822 Konstantinos Kavakos, merchant and president of the Community, compiled the first index of the Archive (Inventario dell’archivio eretto nell’anno 1822), while in 2008 the then director of the Institute, Chrysa Maltesou, reorganised all the archival material and compiled a new Guide to the Archive.

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Digital Repository of the cultural wealth of the Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice

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The Archive contains documents relating to:

a) the organization and operation of the Fraternity and the Community, including the charter of the association (Mariegola), ducal letters, membership registers, minutes of meetings and indexes of movable property;

b) the establishment, organization and administration of the church of Saint George of the Greeks in Venice, the foundation of the diocese of Philadelphia and the monastery of the Greek Women, including patriarchal letters and papal bulls and the remains of priests;

c) educational and charitable activity (educational and nursing institutions that have operated within the framework of the Community);

d) the construction project;

e) the financial administration (wills, donations and legacy administration documents - including the records of merchants who lived and worked in Venice); f) the remains of the scholars Spyridon and Ioannis Veloudis

f) the registry books of the Greek Community of Livorno (1760-1938) and others.

During the period 2006-2008, in the framework of the project “Digitization, cataloguing and documentation of the Archive of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies and development of multimedia cultural and educational applications” of the Operational Programme “Information Society (Measure 1.3)”, 42 registers (partial or complete), 209 loose documents and 7 manuscripts were digitized.