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by organization. This, unfortunately, has not been the case, and consequently 
the groups for the various countries are very unequally known. That of Ger¬ 
many has been most efficiently worked, owing in large part to the mutual 
agreement between the Prussian Institute, the Austrian Institute, and the 
Gorres-Gesellschaft. The first of these institutions undertakes the years 1533- 
1560, part I.; IS 73 _I 585 > P ai ‘t III.; and the seventeenth century after 1628, 
part IV.; the Austrian Institute those from 1560 to 1572, part II.; and the 
Gorres-Gesellschaft, those from 1585 to 1605, and those of the nunciature of 
Cologne. 28 The plan was at first to publish everything, but the task has proved 
so colossal that a compromise between printing entire and calendaring has 
been adopted, at least by the Prussian Institute. Almost equally effective 
work has been done on the nunciature of Flanders, as is described in the spe¬ 
cial section on that division. 28 While but few have worked on the Spanish 
collection, the single publication of Hinojosa takes high rank. Various special 
studies have been made from the French collection, but systematic attack has 
just begun by members of the Society of Archives of the Religious History 
of France, although the project has been long in contemplation. 30 Other di¬ 
visions have been used for special articles, but not to such an extent as to 
preclude important and unexpected discoveries in the future. There are 
indeed few portions of the collection as yet so studied that one can speak 
definitely of the completeness of the archives, or say whether missing docu¬ 
ments can be supplied from other Roman libraries, and, in the absence of orig¬ 
inals, what copies are most to be relied on. 
Special studies on the nunciatures most valuable for the history of North 
America follow, arranged in the order of their importance, Spain, France, 
Flanders, England, Portugal, and the missions of Peace, and following them 
is a list of all the nunciatures. 
NUNZIATURA DI SPAGNA. 81 
This collection is inventoried in indice 134, De Pretis, pp. 33-43. Here are 
cited 470 numbers: 1-439, except 29, 30, 40, 49, 57, and 58 ; plus 4 A, 29 A, 
30 A, 40 A, 49 A, 57 A, 58 A, 60 (A, B, C, D, E), 91 A, 92 A, 99 A, 104 A, 
111 A, 204 A, 210 (A, B), 211 A, 215 A, 237 A, 244 A, 247 A, 250 A, 268 A, 
270 A, 273 A, 278 A, 313 A, 348 A, 364 (A, B, C, D) ; some of which include 
more than one volume. 32 The greater number are bound volumes containing 
from 400 to 600 paper folios, and consisting of original letters, registers of let¬ 
ters or of minutes of letters, and registers of deciphered correspondence. These 
28 Georges Bourgin, Archives Pontihcales, pp. 40-41; H. von Sybel, “Vorwort”, in 
vol. I. of the first series of the publication (Gotha, 1892). The general title of the series 
published by the two institutes is Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland nebst ergdnzenden 
Aclenstucken ; the Gorres-Gesellschaft volumes form part of their series of Quellen 
und Forschungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte. 
* See p. 77. 
80 Abbe J. Fraikin, Nonciatures de Clement VII., vol. I. (Paris, 1906). 
81 Ricardo de Hinojosa, Los Dcspachos de la Diplomacia Pontihcia en Espaha. This 
admirable study gives in its text the names, dates, and missions of the various nuncios, 
with illuminating accounts of the problems of the time. In the notes are lists of the 
documents of the nunciature for the periods treated in the several chapters, as they 
exist not only in this collection, but in the various libraries of Rome. Unfortunately 
only volume I., extending to 1605, has been published. See also Aloys Meister, “ Zur 
Spanischen Nuntiatur im XVI. und XVII. Jahrhundert ”, in Romische Quartalschrift, 
VII. 447-481; and Bolognetti collection, 116 , pp. i 33 - 2 35 > “ Avvertimenti per la 
Nunziatura di Spagna”, etc. 
32 Hinojosa, p. 7, note, gives 572 volumes. He described the collection before the 
inventory was brought up to date. At that time there were 276 uninventoried volumes. 
