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The manuscript heritage, considered as a guest in the "Sala rari e manoscritti", located in the left chapel of the Church of SS. Jerome and Francis Xavier, built with special furniture in 1935, consists of approximately 2000 codes dating back to centuries that are predominantly XVI - XVIII.There are, however, precious pieces of the centuries XIII (Missale Fiorentino composed and illuminated for the Church of Santa Reparata dating from before 1296, the Liber Iurium Reipublicae Genuensis, etc..), XIV ( Apparatus libri VI decretalium of Guido de Baisio) and XV (Historia Alessandri of Curtius Rufus Magni in the version of the Portuguese humanista Vasco de Lucena, Burgundian code, dated around 1475, richly illuminated).
The richness of handwritten collections is evident, not only thanks to the presence of significant illuminated codes, but especially thanks to the consistency of numerous types of funds both documentary and archivistic such as the Epistolario of Angelic Aprosio (5,550 inventory units), the Autographs fund (with more than 14,000 letters, formed by,in the years thirties-sixties, at least three major nuclear autographed letters from the bibliophile funds GB pass, from the correspondence of E. Celesia, and the correspondence of several directors of the library, presumably extrapolated from the same); autographs of the Risorgimento (preserved in fourteen cassettes, letters and documents relating to Nino Bixio, for a consistency of about 3,367 inventory units.)A numerous and continuous increase of minor correspondence was also catalogued in the most recent years.Most of manuscript material, all with regard to the codes, including old catalogues, has been microfilmed.
Quaranta lettere di Giuseppe Pitrè (1841-1916), folclorista, studioso in particolare delle tradizioni siciliane
Sixty-four handwritten letters owned by or addressed to Benedetto Castiglia, from Palermo, editor of ‘La Ruota’ and ‘Il Momento’, a famous Dante scholar, anti-romantic and bitter critic of Rosmini and Manzoni, he was considered a weirdo, an oddball.
600 documents, mostly letters received by Celesia during the course of his activities, including as professor of Italian Literature at the University of Genoa and as director of the Genoa University Library.
Carteggio donated in 1925 by Prof. Gino Loria, it is characterised by the correspondence of prestigious Italian and foreign mathematicians with the mathematician and university professor Placido Tardy (Messina 1816- Florence 1914).
98 letters addressed mostly to Marquis Giacomo Serra by his sons Gio. Carlo, Girolamo, Maria Maddalena, Ambrogio and Giovanni Battista
The correspondence of Marco Federici, Vice Consul of France, consists of 332 letters of both a public and private nature. It does not correspond to Federici's entire archive, which was recently donated by his heirs to the La Spezia State Archives.
184 letters, cards, telegrams and a substantial number of scattered papers addressed to Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo between the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century
Letters addressed by prominent personalities from the Italian cultural and literary scene of the 20th century, to Lucia Morpurgo Rodocanachi, a great translator and friend of Eugenio Montale, who from 1930 with her husband, the painter Paolo Stamaty Rodocanachi, set up a sort of literary art salon in her Arenzano home.
Part of the library of Augustinian Father Angelico Aprosio
The file, sorted at the time either by an anonymous librarian, or by the possessor himself, is mostly composed of letters, telegrams and cards adhering to the solemn celebrations that the University of Genoa organised for 9.XII.1906 on the occasion of Professor Arturo Issel's 40th year of teaching.
3400 units acquired in 1907 by the last heir Camillo Bixio
246 letters ‘to the editor’ and contain requests for information and loans, suggestions for book purchases or accompanying publications
The manuscript holdings consist of approximately 2000 codices dating mainly from the 16th to 18th centuries. However, there is no lack of valuable pieces from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.
