Resources

For publications acquired starting from 1992, please consult:
OPAC, POLO BVE - National Central Library of Rome 

For publications acquired before 1992 please consult:
Digitised alphabetical catalogue by Author and Title 

For works in the music section and the theatre section, acquired up to the 1960s, please consult:
Digitised Music Section Catalogue  
Digitised Theatre Section Catalogue

For manuscripts, please consult:
MANUS 

For the inventory of the Barnabei Archive, please consult:
Barnabei Archive Inventory

For the collective catalogue of the libraries of the National Library Service (SBN: Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale), please consult:
SBN Index 

Catalogue of auction sale catalogues:

Catalogues acquired before 1985

Organised into four sections: by artist, type of object, collectors and by auction house.

Catalogues acquired since 1985

With cards in the international format, it is subdivided by auction house. Within each auction house, sales are listed by type of objects, then by place and date of sale.

Lanciani Fund Catalogue

A Staderini sheaf catalogue collected together into volumes, each card contains a description by subject of the prints and drawings in the Lanciani fund.

BiASA Manuscripts and Lanciani Manuscripts Catalogue

A Staderini sheaf catalogue collected together into volumes: by author, title, or subject.

Digitised Italian periodicals

This collection contains 117 Italian newspapers published between the 18th century and the early 20th century for a total of 785,321 digitised images. The materials can be freely used for research and study. There are only a few years that can only be consulted in the library, due to copyright restrictions. For reproduction permissions please contact vi-ve.biasa.ricerca@cultura.gov.it. In some cases, reproduction will require a payment for the copyright license, as required by Italian law.

Museum Iconographicum

This database contains and catalogues books published from the 16th to 19th century and their engravings. 

It consists of two archives. The first, the book archive, contains works relating to the study of history, archaeology, art and architecture, topography, and ancient and modern monuments mostly in Rome, Lazio, and even Naples and Campania.

The second, the engravings archive, contains etchings and engravings contained in the publications of the book archive.

The database currently indexes 1,816 books and over 25,000 engravings, belonging mainly to the collections held in RARI ROMA I, II, III, VII, and ROMA X. 

968 books and over 5,000 engravings have been digitised.

Images of Rome. The Fondo Lanciani Digital Archive 

4,000 depictions from the Lanciani Archive have been digitised thanks to an agreement between the National Institute of Archaeology and Art History (Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte) and our library, the University of Oregon, Stanford University and Dartmouth College.

Thanks to Stanford University, these materials can now be consulted through a simple search bar and a high-resolution viewing system.

Requests for copies and publication rights relating to the Lanciani Archive must be sent to the National Institute of Archaeology and Art History via email: inasa@inasa-roma.it.