Archivio Segreto 
35 
COUNCIL OF TRENT. 
This collection is inventoried in indice 133 , where it is described as occupy¬ 
ing armadii 62 and 63 . It consists of 154 volumes, of which 60 have been 
added since the time of De Pretis. These include the acts and decrees of the 
council; registers of the council, some general, and some on special subjects, 
such as “ regulars ”; letters and diaries written by legates, cardinals, and 
other attendants at the council, and relations by ambassadors ; and a collection 
of bulls, orations, and miscellany relating to it. Numbers 32 and 33 form 
an index, probably only to the first 95 volumes, if to so many. None of the 
volumes of this collection were examined, but some material relating to the 
council in other collections has been inspected, and some idea obtained of its 
contents. A description of what was found relating to the subject is given in 
connection with the Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele, numbers 1 . 280 - 1282 , and 
Biblioteca Vaticana, number 3198 . American material would occur only by 
chance, and probably exists only in infinitesimal amount. 47 
REMAINING ARMADII OF THE ARCHIVIO SEGRETO 
INVENTORIED BY DE PRETIS 
The collection which De Pretis undertook to inventory under the title of 
Archivio Segreto, in what is now indice 133 , occupied 78 cupboards, but of 
these the inventory does not deal with 75 - 78 . Many of the cupboards contain 
collections purely local, dealing with Ferrara, Urbino, etc., which were not 
examined. The remaining material is not of such a character as to make it 
likely that items on America exist, and it seems safe to say that the following 
references include practically everything at all relating to the subject. 
Arm. XXXI. This contains copies of bulls made from the registers. Numbers 
66, 67 , and 79 were examined and nothing pertinent found. There 
remain of bulls after 1492, the following: 
68. Paul III. 
69 . Paul IV. 
70 . Clement VIII. 
71 . Paul II. to Alexander VIII. 
80 . Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
81 . Pius IV. to Alexander VII. 
Arm. XXXII. Copies of bulls made from the registers, of which those of pos¬ 
sible interest are noted below: 
3 . Ad Hispaniam pertin. 
10 - 11 , 18 - 19 , 21 - 37 , 44 - 47 . Divers bulls. 
51 . Decretals of Clement VIII. 
59 . Bulls relating to the Augustinians from the time of Innocent III. to 
that of Benedict XIV. 
60 . Bulls of dispensation and motu proprio. 
61 . Julius II. 
62 . Bulls of indulgences. 1711-1716. 
47 Garampi refers to arm. 62 , no. 27 , Jan. 21, 1578, faculty conceded to the archbishop 
of Mexico, to dispense from the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity; to letters of 
the same of Mar. 25, 1578, Dec. 29, 1580, Apr. 20, 1582; and, pp. 686, 703, a letter of 
Gregory XIV., in answer to one from the archbishop of the same see, congratulating 
him on his exaltation. 
