The State Archive of Novara is involved in the “Digital Archive” initiative of ICAR - the Central Archive Institute - with three digitisation projects:
- The “Conservatoria dei registri immobiliari di Novara”
- The old inventories of the State Archive of Novara
- The scrolls of the State Archive of Novara
- Novara publicist Aldo Beldì
Thanks to these projects, high-definition digital images of the old inventories and scrolls of the Cacciapiatti family are now available to view online.
In particular, the inventory of the historic archive of the Municipality di Novara, Old section, written by notary Augusto Polastri in 1852, has been made accessible. This tool allows users to identify records they wish to consult in the study room, by making an ordinary request via email and specifying the relative folders of interest (as indicated in the second column from the left on each page of the original inventory). The inventories of the County of Novara, as well as the Brusati and Tornielli families, are also available online.
In addition to the descriptions, the main web page of the archive also includes the paragraph “Access conditions”, explaining how to request access to the records.
On the right-hand side of the page, there is a tree structure representing the “Polastri Inventories” series and the three archive units corresponding to the index of records and the two volumes of the inventory. By clicking on the individual units, individual hi-resolution pages from the volumes will appear as icons at the top of the screen, and also below, where they can be browsed and enlarged.
The project also includes a selection of images of the vast and complex archive of publicist Aldo Beldì, offering a general overview of his work.
