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Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI)
To contact the Archives:
Borgo S. Spirito 4
00193 Roma
Italy
Telephone: (39) 06-6897 7533
Email: arsi@sjcuria.org
Director: Father Marek Inglot SJ
The collections of the Archivum Romanum
ARSI is the official central archives of the Society of Jesus worldwide. It does not hold all Jesuit collections that scholars might seek. The Jesuit Manuscript Collection (Fondo Gesuitico dei Manoscritti) is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Central Vittorio Emmanuele. The Vatican Archives also has considerable holdings relating to the activities of Jesuits.
A description in Italian (the regular working language of the archives)
Father Thomas McCoog SJ has published a very useful book, A Guide to Jesuit Archives, that describes the collections of such archives all over the world and how to contact them.
more info about the book...
Policies of the ARSI
Details on the policyYearly Schedule
The archives opens each year on the first working day after the
fifteenth of September and closes on the fifteenth of July. The archives
is also closed on all feast days and holidays in Italy, Holy Thursday,
Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and the thirty-first of December.
Daily Schedule
The archives is open from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and from 2:30
to 5:00 p.m. Documents may be ordered from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. and from
3:00 to 4:15 p.m. Any change or variation in this schedule will immediately
be communicated to researchers.
Access: who may do research
Researchers in the archives must have the competence to read the
documents provided. Archivists will provide some assistance only. Each
year at the first visit to the archives, each researcher must register
and provide proper documentation. Every day, both morning and afternoon,
each must register in the daybook. Undergraduate or graduate students
intending to use the archives must present a letter from their director
detailing the subject of their research.
Restrictions
No one may consult documents later than 1921 without requesting pennission
of Father General of the Society of Jesus, who, in turn, will discuss
the matter with the director of the archives before any consent is given.
Assistance
Archivists are available to meet researchers and to work with them in
planning and developing their research.
Copying
Photocopies, microfilms, and CD-ROMs are requested on the forms provided.
With the exception of loose sheets, no photocopying can be done without
authorization from the director of the archives. Authorization from the
author is needed to photocopy theses deposited in the library of the Archives.
Requests for photocopies and microfilms will be filled in the order in
which they are received. Each special request for reproductions is handled
individually regarding means of reproducing the requested item and the
costs. Photocopies, microfilm, and CD-ROMs must be paid for in advance.
Regarding microfilm, the photographer is totally responsible for the restitution
of the documents photographed (that is, taking into account the state
of the original) and of delivery within the agreed-upon time.
Using the material
Permission to reproduce documents from the archives is granted by the
director of the archives only after he has received the proper request
form. Documents reproduced are only for personal use. To publish any,
the students must first request and receive permission from the director
of the archives. On narrow sheets of paper provided, the student indicates
the folios or pages for photocopy ing or microfilming.
Students who have used documents from the archives for their theses or publications are expected to donate a copy of their work to the archives, which makes no other demand for use of materials contained therein. The archives will not make any thesis available to the general public without i: prior authorizationfrom the author.