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bulls, grants and rules of monastic orders, and all kinds of legal instruments. 06 
They were arranged by Confalonieri about 1630, who placed them in two 
series of armadii; a lower, numbered from I. to XVI., and to which two 
others, XVII. and XVIII., were subsequently added; and an upper, A-M. 
In the armadii were placed numbered capsole or cases, within which were 
the documents, also numbered. It is necessary to give the document number 
in calling for material, as the cases are often divided, two having one number. 
There are also some series of bound volumes which are not thus placed in 
cases. This arrangement is still preserved although the collection is in much 
disorder and many portions of it have disappeared. Many inventories and 
indexes to this material have been prepared, which now stand as numbers 
10-70 of the indici of the Vatican archives. None of these are satisfactory 
and most are in poor condition. They do not note losses. 
It is obvious that a collection of this character is not apt to contain much 
American material. In the search for what might exist, only indici 69 and 70 
were examined. These form a chronological index to the whole, arranged 
by Garampi, the first volume running from 344 to 1539, and the second from 
1540 to 1803. They did not give an impression of completeness, but it did 
not seem worth while to spend more time here. 67 The American material 
found is listed as follows: 
Arm. II. Caps. I. No. 38. July 10, 1519. Letter from Charles V., from Bar¬ 
celona, to Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, on the erection of a cathedral 
in the province of Peru. Original. 
No. 68. May 20, 1520. Letter from Charles V. to Leo X., in favor of F. 
Bernardino de Monachelis ( ?), nominated to the archbishopric of 
“ Nov’ Carteg nis ”. Original. 
Caps. IV. No. 36 was lacking. Nos. 37 and 38 were original papers re¬ 
lating to concordats between the Holy See and Spain in 1717 and 
1738, and contained nothing on America. 
Arm. IV. Caps. III. No. 3. Apr. 12, 1671. Bull of Clement X., concerning 
the canonization of the Blessed Virgin Rosa of Lima. Original 
with the signature of the Pope and of cardinals. 
Arm. VII. Caps.V. No. 8. 1591. Copy of bull of Innocent IX., in which he 
created the archbishop of Mexico patriarch of the Western Indies. 
No. 13. Feb. 14, 1576. Letter of the Archbishop of Mexico to Gregory 
XIII., thanking him for relics, and asking that members of the 
Society of Jesus be sent him. Original, with autograph and seal. 
Arm. XI. Caps. I. No. 181. July 18, 1533. Letter from Charles V. to Clem¬ 
ent VII., asking for the confirmation and consecration of Father 
Thomas de Berlanga, of the Order of Preachers, as Provincial in 
the Province of the Indies. Original with seal. 
Oct. 15, 1533. Same to same, nominating Father Thomas de Tiro, of 
the Order of Preachers, to the church of Carthagena in the Indies. 
Original with seal. 
08 P. Fabre, “Notes sur les Archives du Chateau Saint-Ange”, in Melanges d’Arch. 
et d'Hist., XIII. 1-19; states that when the Archivio Vaticano was founded, documents 
were exchanged between the two despositaries, with the intention of preserving in the 
Castello the archives of the Camera. Such exchanges ceased with the coming of Con¬ 
falonieri in 1629, and do not seem to have resulted in any very comprehensive separa¬ 
tion of field. 
67 Kehr, as above. For instance armadii XVI. and XVII. are not to be found. 
