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C. 3554 . 1623-1644. 335 ff. and index. “ Acta diversa.” 
C. 3557 . 1667-1676. 412 ff. and index. “ Acta diversa.” 
C. 3558 . 1676-1691. 305 ff. and index. “ Acta diversa.” 
There is also a set of acta, the volumes of which once had numbers similar 
to those preceding, most of which are now illegible. They are from the re¬ 
cords of the camerarius. They have been renumbered as follows: 
C. 10 . ( 3071 ). 1592-1605. 416 ff. and index. Sometimes cited as A. C. 
VIII. 
C. 11 . ( 3080 ). 1605-1614. 550 ff. and index. 
C. 12. 1610-1624. 271 pp. and index. 
C. 13 . 1615-1624. 
C. 14 . 1624-1631. 
C. 15 . 1632-1640. 
C. 16 . 1640-1644. 
C. 17 . 1644-1656. 
C. 18 . 1657-1662. 
C. 19 . 1663-1668. 
139 ff. and index. 
384 ff. and index. 
204 ff. and index. 
212 if. and index. 
286 if. and index. 
206 if. and index. 
219 if. and index. 
Without number are: 
“ Acta consistorialia ”, 1570-1595. About 1000 if. Copy of S. Severina. 
I 5^5-i590. 220 if. “ Acta.” Sometimes cited as C. S. V. 
I 59 °~ I 59 I * “ Acta ”, cited as CMMC. 
“ Acta consistorialia ”, 1595-1614. In the same hand. 
1746-1749. 197 if. and index. “ Liber Provisions et actor’ consistorial- 
ium.” From the records of the earnerarms. 
“ Acta congreg nis consistorial.”, 1660-1663. Several thousand if., apparently 
journal of the congregation of the consistory. There is nothing pertinent to 
the subject. Belonging to the same set are volumes for 1655-1662 and 1664- 
1666, which likewise contain nothing relevant. 
(“ Mandata.”) 1600-1675. This volume contains nothing pertinent to the 
subject. 
(Other collections.) Consistorial acta are found in many other places. For 
instance, there are many in the Avignon registers. 62 In addition in nearly 
every private library good sets of copies of acta and occasional praeconia are 
found, which are referred to in the proper places. 
ARCHIVES OF THE SECRETARY OF BRIEFS. 
This is an enormous collection recently removed from the office of the 
secretarv of briefs to the Archivio. It is said to consist of about 8000 volumes 
* 
extending from the middle of the fifteenth century to the present day. There 
is no inventory and the collection is not yet readily accessible, as requests for 
volumes must be made at the office, and not of the regular ushers. The 
pressure of business occasioned by the death of Mgr. Wenzel prevented as 
careful an examination as had been intended and various points were left 
in doubt. The material is arranged chronologically and can be called for by 
date alone. Any document accidently misplaced would be, for the present, 
effectually lost. The volumes bear serial numbers recently placed, and prob¬ 
ably foreshadowing an inventory and greater accessibility. 
Bulls. Toward the end of the sixteenth century it became the common 
practice to have bulls registered in this office instead of by the Camera. Thus 
62 U. Berliere, Inventaire Analytique des Libri Obligationum, cites numbers 66 , 72 , 
82 , and 83 as belonging to this category. 
