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Our services

What we offer

• If you cannot personally visit the institutes we collaborate with or if you prefer to entrust some specialist to perform archival and bibliographic searches for you in these same institutes, then you can use our search on demand service: our information specialists will accomplish in-depth inquiries tailored to meet your needs, or simply retrieve the materials you ask for.




• If you are looking for reproductions --either photocopies, print or digital reproductions-- of materials preserved in the institutes we collaborate with, then contact our document reproduction service: we can offer you a whole variety of solutions, ranging from photocopies of recent journal articles to poster-size, high-quality photographs of ancient cartographic materials or manuscripts. Copyright law restrictions apply.




• Our document delivery service can supply you with the reproductions you requested or with the results of the bibliographic or documentary searches you commissioned to our information services.




• When searching for and through old manuscripts, it becomes often necessary and useful to transcribe the textual contents of the document: our transcription service will transcribe for you documents in old Venetian, Latin and old German. To request such service, check it out when filling in the form for a guided search (remember that with complex searches, the transcription is included in the general price). See the search on demand service page first.




• Although at the moment our translation service is addressed to Italian- and German-speaking customers, we can provide abstracts in English of the documents selected by the user that are written in old Venetian, Latin and old German. To request a translation or the abstract in English, check it out in the form for guided or complex searches. See the search on demand service service page first.

Where we search

• At the moment the cultural institutions that have signed special agreements for this initiative are:
  • Marciana National Library of Venice
  
  
  • Venice State Archive
  
  
  • Archivio I.R.E. - Venezia
  
  
  • Naples State Archive
  
  
  • Ravenna State Archive
  • Archivio Storico Comunale di Ravenna
  • Forlì State Archive
  • Archivio di Stato di Chieti
  • Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venezia)
  
  
  • Austrian State Archive in Vienna
  
  
  
  On request, we can extend our services to other collections present in Italy, Austria and Greece.

Who we are

• Marsilio Editori is a traditional as well as electronic publishing house located in Venice. At the moment our group is coordinating the VENetIan Virtual Archive Project (ESPRIT 20638), within which the current initiative on added-value services for libraries and archives takes place.




• Our information specialists are professional people with a specific preparation on archival and bibliographic studies, palaeography, ancient languages that know the collections of the institutes we collaborate with particularly well.