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rini. Indice 199 is entitled, “ Ripartimento di Manuscritti dell’Em 1110 Sig r 
Cardinale Scipione Borghese ”. The collection consists of about 2000 vol¬ 
umes, divided, on what seems on a casual examination no system, into four 
classes, 1 - 974 , 1 - 521 , 1 - 132 , and 1 - 301 . 
This collection was not examined in detail, as members of the Prussian In¬ 
stitute, familiar with the contents, stated that it contained no material relating 
to North America. 6 “ Indie ” occurs several times in the inventory, but doubt¬ 
less relates to the East Indies and the Philippines. 
BIBLIOTECA CARPEGNA. 
This collection of 83 volumes was made by Cardinal Carpegna (d. 1714). 
Indici 140 and 141 give an extensive but not wholly accurate index of the 
material. 7 It is also indexed in the Miscellanea of Garampi, whose refer¬ 
ences, also, are not always correct. Volumes 1 , 6, 11, 30 , 56 , 57, and 80 
were examined without result. The references found to be relevant to the 
subject, follow: 
2 . ff. 246-292. Documents of the special congregation appointed with refer¬ 
ence to the petition of the Catholic King for permission to impose 
decimae on ecclesiastical goods in the Western Indies for the pur¬ 
pose of defence against the pirates. Copies. Included are reports 
of the Sacred Congregation of Sept. 20, 1672, and June 1, 1673; 
and petitions addressed to it Mar. 15, 1673, and Jan. 23, 1674. 
32 . Congregation. Particular. Immunitat. This includes the following pieces 
relating to an appeal for a grant of the decimae subsequent to that 
involved in 2 . Copies. The petition of the Spanish minister, Apr. 
18, 1687; letter from the papal secretary of state to the congregation, 
Oct. 29, 1689, 2 ff.; report of the congregation, Dec. 12, 1689, 3 ff.; 
letter of the King of Spain to Alexander VIII., 3 ff.; meeting of the 
congregation, Dec. 12, 1689, 4 ff. 
54 . Congregation. Particular. Immunitat. No. 6. “ Hispaniarum Indulti.” 
19 ff. Copies. Letter of Gregory XIII., May 15, 1573, granting 
original concessions; letter from King of Spain, 1598, requesting 
extension of grant; relation to the council, Apr. 15, 1698; relation 
of the Spanish minister, Apr. 21, 1695; relations by the provincial 
general of the Society of Jesus, the provincial general of the order 
of St. Augustine, the commissioner general of the order of Minores 
Observantes, the vicar general of the order of the Blessed Mary of 
Mercedes for the redemption of captives, the presiding general prior 
of the Spanish congregation of barefooted Carmelites; and a decree 
of the Congregation of the Council, Mar. 30, 1680. 
55 . ff. 133- 134. Mar. 18, 1698. Copy of letter reporting shipwreck of the 
galleons near Havana. 
f. 212. Mar. 17, 1701. “ Avvisi da Madrid.” Changes in the government 
of the Indies. 
55 (another volume in two parts). Material drawn from the archives of the 
Propaganda, chiefly relating to the East Indies and China, 
ff. 335-342. Papers on the division of the world into provinces. 1672. 
6 Hinojosa, Los Despachos, p. n, note 1, refers to certain Spanish material. 
T “ Index primus (secundus, otherwise similar) omnium Causarum spectan. ad Mate- 
rias Canonicas, Morales, Theologicas, Mixtas etiam Sancti, Officii, Datariae, quae 
variis codicibus Bibliothecae Carpineanae colligatae reperiuntur.” 
