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Vatican Archives 
Obligationes et Solutiones . 43 This collection, like the last, belongs, perhaps, 
properly to the archives of Avignon as the majority of its volumes came from 
there, and belong to the Avignon period of the papacy. The only official in¬ 
ventory found is the same indice 145 . This series also stands accessible in 
the room for the study of unbound manuscripts. It is possibly incorrect to 
place it under the head of documents relating to the apostolic Camera, since 
it contains actually the accounts of the Camera of the college of cardinals, 
for the fees for the common services, the incidence and the removal of which 
are here noted, were divided, half and half, between the Pope and that college. 
The 88 volumes which form the main collection, beginning with 1295, end 
before the foundation of American dioceses, but the supplementary volumes 
containing items for the years 1490-1678, and 1540-1553, respectively, may 
possibly contain something. 44 They were not examined, as work with later 
volumes in the Archivio di Stato, which will be noted later, made their char¬ 
acter familiar. 
Quindenae . This collection is mentioned here, because it belongs to the 
archives of the Camera, and, if it does not properly belong to the Archivio 
Segreto, at least it seems to have no other specially assigned place. It con¬ 
sists of 75 volumes, for the years 1572-1776, in several different series, which 
are to be found in the third or last room on the ground-floor suite of the 
archives. It contains the account books for the fifteenths which are described 
in the introduction to this volume, and an examination of the indexes of many 
volumes established the absence of material relating to the subject. 
Benedciorum ab anno 1600 usque 1700 pro quibus fuerunt soluta annata. 
This collection of 8 volumes, bound in green, is, like the last, without inventory, 
number, or description, and is in the same room. The benefices are placed 
in alphabetical order. The one volume examined contained an item relating 
to Lima. 
Attention is called to the fact that the late records of the Camera, to 1870, 
are to be found in the Archivio di Stato. 45 Also it should be noted that in this 
division of archives, much has been lost, or lost sight of. As this material 
may yet come to light, brief mention is made of some items that should prove 
profitable for the subject in hand. In the Vatican are many inventories of 
the volumes preserved by the Camera, the best being 221 and 222 , both of 
the year 1747. 40 The later volumes of the introitus and exitus might, though 
they probably would not, contain something. More probably, material would 
be found in the Collettorie dei Spoglie, covering almost completely the years 
1550-1681. Still more likely to be of interest would be the accounts of the 
nuncios. These are most complete in the case of Spain, where it will be re¬ 
membered the nuncios performed many functions, extending with few breaks 
from 1506 to 1715. 
43 See Mgr. P. M. Baumgarten, Untersuchungen und Urkunden iiber die Camera 
Collegii Cardinalium fur die Zeit von 1295 bis 1437 (Leipzig, 1898, pp. 378). This con¬ 
tains, pp. iii-xiii, an inventory of the collection, 1295-1509; J. P. Kirsch, “ Administration 
des Finances Pontificates ”, in Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique, 1900, I. 275. 
44 Berliere, Inventaire Analytique des Libri Obi. et Sol., gives 92 volumes instead of 
88. He points out that certain volumes contain other matter. 
45 See pp. 209-210. 
46 The title of 221 reads, “ Ristretto di Materie esistenti nell’ Archivio della Com- 
putisteria Generale della Rev. Cam. Apost.” 
