ARCHIVE, or Archives, a chamber wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences of a house or community are preserved. See RECORD, PAPER, etc.
Thus, we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, etc.
The archives of ancient Rome were in the Temple of Saturn; and the archives of Chancery are in the Rolls-Office. See CHANCERY, ROLLS, etc.
The Code calls archivum publicum, or armarium publicum where acts and books were displayed, Code de fid. instr. Auth, & xxx. q-t- 1. The word comes from the Latin arca (from arceo, to enclose), a chest or coffer; or the Greek ἀρχεῖον, which Cicero uses in the same sense. In some Latin writers, we read artharium.
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