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Graphic collection

We have an abundant graphic archive with numerous elements that collects different samples, from the 18th to 20th Century and a photographic collection that includes documents from the second half of the 19th Century. The engraving’s fund has pieces with a lot of different techniques: the most ancient compositions come from chalcographic means, like woodcut and sweet engraving, but also has pieces made with serigraph
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Documentary collection

The Parochial Archive of Santa Maria del Pi preserves different funds and collections which have been deposited in the course of its history, joining to the generated by the Parish. In different epochs, some individuals have decided to bequeath their funds to the Archive, and so it is possible to look over the social and economic life, both public and private, of the city of Barcelona, especially from the 15th to the
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Bibliographic collection

The heart of this fund is the ancient library of the Reverend Beneficiary Community. Nowadays there are a thousand of books, from the 16th Century to the present day, that are reaching very different knowledge fields: theology, philosophy, Church History, patristic, exegesis, etcetera. The auxiliary library, a modern one, is a support for the study of the documentation that guards the archive and collects diverse wor
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Musical collection

The Musical Fund, produced by the documentation of the Capella de Música del Pi (Music Chapel of the Pi), founded around the 16th Century, preserves numerous musical documents of important authors, especially of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Among this documentation is preserved the original manuscript of the Ball de l’Àliga de la Ciutat de Barcelona (Eagle Dance of the City of Barcelona) from 1756 that preceptively a
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