The Diocesan Historical Archive of Cagliari is the most important ecclesiastical archive in Sardinia because of the quantity, age and quality of the documentation it holds. In fact, it collects several archives, produced by ecclesiastical institutions of very ancient origin, of great importance not only for the Church of Cagliari, whose head was also primate of Sardinia, but also for the entire Sardinian Church. It houses the oldest documents of Sardinia dating back to the 12th century; these are the so-called Carte volgari, because they were written in the ancient Sardinian vernacular language. The Archive was housed for several centuries in the premises of the bishop’s palace and remained there until the early eighties of the twentieth century, when, due to the insalubriousness and inadequacy of the rooms, no longer suitable to accommodate the huge amount of documentation sedimented over so many centuries or received from the archives of some suppressed dioceses, it was ordered to be transferred to the premises of the Archiepiscopal Seminary, where it is currently located.
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