The introduction of the obligation in the Papal State in 1588 by the constitution “Solicitudo pastoralis officii” that every city must have a public archive is not just a mere and immediate result of a legal act of the Roman pope but an event that has the significance of a turning point in the history of the West. Due to its principle and conceptual meaning and as a kind of origin of organized public archival activity, this act will remain thoroughly present to this day, with many adjustments and changes. This act is a reflection of the time in which it was created and its social, political, economic, cultural, and other contexts as well as the drive for universalism, standardization, routinization, and legal definition of archival actions and processes in order to preserve the archival material so it would always be available and easily searchable when the need arises. This article analyses the basic determinants of the constitution of the “Solicitudo pastoralis officii” and the forces, challenges, and contexts due to which it was adopted in that content and precisely at the end of the 16th century as part of the then so-called Sistine reforms of the Roman high priest Sixtus V.Uvedba obveznosti, da mora vsako mesto imeti javni arhiv, s konstitucijo „Solicitudo pastoralis officii“ v Papeški državi leta 1588 ni le običajna in neposredna posledica papeževega pravnega akta, temveč prelomnica v zgodovini Zahoda. S svojim načelnim in konceptualnim pomenom – kot nekakšen izvor organizirane javne arhivske dejavnosti – je ta akt (s številnimi prilagoditvami in spremembami) izrazito prisoten vse do danes. Je sicer odraz časa, v katerem je nastal, njegovega družbenega, političnega, gospodarskega, kulturnega in drugih kontekstov in težnje po univerzalnosti, standardizaciji, rutinizaciji ter pravni opredelitvi arhivskih dejanj in postopkov. Cilj je bil arhivsko gradivo ohraniti tako, da bi bilo vedno na voljo in bi bilo v njem po potrebi mogoče preprosto iskati. Prispevek analizira osnovne determinante konstituiranja „Solicitudo pastoralis officii“ ter silnice, izzive in okvir, zaradi katerih je bil sprejet s tako vsebino in natanko ob koncu 16. stoletja – kot del t. i. sikstinskih reform papeža Siksta V.
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