Archivio Segreto 
45 
Arm. XIV. Caps. IV. No. 93, p. 23. Copy of a letter from Spinosa to the 
King of Spain, written July 21, 1533, from Panama, on the gold, 
silver, and other commodities of Peru. 
Also Hinojosa notes in his Despachos, p. 76, that in arm. VIII., ord. I., 
letter N., there are letters from the nuncios of Spain during the pontificate 
of Paul III. (1534-1550). 68 
INSTRTJMENTA MISCELLANEA. 
This is a collection of original documents occupying 15 armadii, within 
which the documents are contained in cases like those of the Gastello. They 
extend from 996 to 1542, 69 and consist of documents belonging to the Camera 70 
and others of a political character.' 1 There is no inventory, though one is in 
preparation, but the documents are chronologically arranged, and the chrono¬ 
logical index of Garampi refers frequently to them. This collection was not 
examined, as the date makes the existence of American material improbable, 
and investigation can be so much more economically made after the completion 
of the inventory. 
MISCELLANEA. 72 
This very varied collection was contained at the time of De Pretis in 16 
armadii, and while this arrangement has been greatly changed, the method 
of reference is unaltered. The working reference list is in indice 136 , De 
Pretis, which has been corrected to 1904. The Miscellanea of Garampi in¬ 
cludes these documents among those it attempts to index. The portions of 
this collection which are or may be of interest are noted below. 
Arm. I. 
Of the 188 volumes listed here, number 57 was examined and found to 
contain nothing of importance. References to material found, follow: 
59 . “ Avvisi da Parigi ”, 1680-1685, by Abbe Lauri. p. 50. Feb. 24, 1681; 
interview between Louis XIV. and the Spanish ambassador regard¬ 
ing pirates in the Indies. 
p.170. June 29, 1682; effect on French merchants, of arrival of the 
galleons in Spain. 
p. 201. Nov. 30, 1682; similar notice. 
131 . “ Registrum Abbreviatoriae Apostolicae Hispan.” 1711-1713. Inter¬ 
esting illustration of the activities of this officer though containing 
no special references to America. 
133 . No. 3. 18 ff. Papers of the collector, during the vacancy of the church 
of Carthagena in the Western Indies. 1713. They include: 7 f£., 
an inventory dated Feb. 2, 1713; a copy of the same ; and, 5 ff., a 
68 Many schedae referring to the Archivio Segreto have been placed here by mistake. 
They may be detected by the failure of the reference to refer. 
69 Bourgin, Archives Pontificales, p. 80. _ . 
70 Joseph de Loye, Les Archives de la Chambre Apostolique au XIV e Siecle (Paris, 
1899), p.x. 
71 Eugene Bacha, “Les Collections Historiques des Archives du Vatican”, in the 
Comptes Rendus de la Commission Royale d’Histoire (Belgique), fourth ser., XVI., pp. 
517-528. 
72 Bourgin, Archives Pontificales, pp. 75 ~ 79 ’> F Kehr, “ Papsturkunden in Rom”, in 
Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, 1900, pp. 120-122; 
and Wirz, Bullen und Breven, p. xxx, class this as part of the Archivio Segreto. 
