Cathedral Archive Gozo - HMML Repository
Cathedral Archive Gozo
19 volumes of parish records from the Cathedral Church in Gozo, 1554-1893, including 20th century indexes. 935 music manuscripts from the Gozo Cathedral Museum Archives dating from the 18th-20th century.
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Collection
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Country
Malta -
City
Victoria -
Repository
Cathedral Archive Gozo -
Project Codes
GZCA; Malta Series I -
Project Numbers
GZCA 00001-GZCA 00019; Malta Series I 7825-Malta Series I 8042 and Malta Series I 8191-Malta Series I 8223 -
Type
Digital; Microform -
Digital Surrogates
19 -
Microfilm Reels
251 -
Date Preserved
1987-1988; 2020 -
Languages
Latin; Italian; English; Maltese -
Bibliography
Noel D'Anastas, "The Music Archives at the Gozo Cathedral," in Guardians of Memory: Essays in Remembrance of Hella Jean Bartolo Winston, edited by Charles Farrugia, 51-73 (2008).
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Reading Room Collections
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Uncataloged Collections
700 music manuscripts from the Cathedral Museum Archives were microfilmed by the Malta Study Center during the 1980s. The collection is rich in Maltese and Gozitan music history, particulary 19th-century composers. The collection also includes 235 music manuscripts donated in 2004 August 14 by Monsignor Anton Gauci (1925-2013), Monsignor Joseph Gauci (1932-), and Monsignor Giovanni-Bosco Gauci (1938-2017), who jointly owned the collection. The manuscripts were microfilmed by the Malta Study Center as a private library during the 1980s. Composers include Francesco Azopardi, Pietro Paolo Bugeja, Vincenzo Bondi, Michele de Ferraris, Giorgio Mercieca, Vincenzo Napoleone Mifsud, Cesare Vassallo, among others.
Records of the baptisms, marriages, deaths and status animarum of the Catheral Parish Sacramental Registries, Victoria, Gozo, 1554-1893. Records include modern indexes