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This fonds includes documents from the Palestinian Commission and Palestinian Comittee about schools, journeys of the imperial family, hospitals and every other issue dealt with by the institution.

To be completed.

This archival fonds contains documents from 1839 to 1935, although some of them date before this period. Most part of the archives of pontifical representations started to arrive to Vatican since the mid Seventies of the 20th century.
During the cataloguing, the fonds was divided into “Archivio Antico”; “Archivio mons. Cassulo” e “Archivio mons. Valeri-Mazzoli-Bartoloni-Dini”. The last one is composed by 101 dossiers.

Before being appointed Titular of the new Apostolic Nonciature in Ireland (1929-1948), Fr Paschal Robinson ofm (1870-1948) had an intense diplomatic activity on behalf of the Holy See, in particular of the Secretariat of State and the Congregations for the Oriental Church and Propaganda Fide.
After his death, Mgr Domenico Tardini, at that time secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, ordered to preserve the documents of his missions as Apostolic Visitator in Palestine and Apostolic Delegate in Malta. Then the documents were deposited in the ASV.
The six folders mainly concerns the Apostolic visits to Palestine entrusted to Fr Robinson by the Congregation for the Oriental Church (1925-1928) and the Congregation for Propaganda Fide (1920-1921; 1927-1928).

This collection includes 88 “lists” (sections) and each of them is dedicated to a famous Armenian (either an historian, a musician, a painter, a monk, a general, a professor, an editor, a doctor, or an engineer), or to a well-known institution or event. For instance, this collection also includes papers from the Armenian orphanage of Aleppo, documents about the massacres of Cilicia, or papers from the charitable organizations of Syria, Lebanon and etc.
These are mostly personal papers that have been given to the National Archives of Armenia by relatives.

Documents of German consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, including records of relations with the Ottoman authorities, tax matters, the acquisition of property, Jewish immigration, civil and criminal cases, representation of German interests by the Spanish Consulate (1917‒1926), and a variety of other subjects. Collection reflects Germany’s takeover of the Austrian Consulate in 1938.

Only the remnants from the archives of the consulate in Jerusalem from the years 1842-1939 (including several files of the Austrian consulate which were turned over to the German consulate upon the annexion of Austria in march 1938) are described here, but the fonds also contains remnants from the archives of the Jaffa consulate (1870-1917) and the Haifa consulate (1877-1918).

This fonds is part of the Archives of Training Houses held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.

Structure of the fonds - Global extent: 3 files; 1932 set. 10 – 1946 set. 17
Series A, Correspondence. Global extent: 1 file; 1932 set. 10 – 1946 set. 17
Series B, Chronicles. Global extent: 2 files; 1943 ago. 11 - 1944 ago. 14

The Matson Photograph (G. Eric and Edith) Collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the collection consists of over 22,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. Over 1,000 photographic prints and eleven albums are also part of this collection.

The Chancellery or Divanatun is the working office of the Catholicos.