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Vatican Archives 
f. 353. Responses to a demand for a relation of the state of missions of 
France. 
65 . Index to the manuscripts of Cardinal Pio. 1686. 
BIBLIOTECA CIAMPINI. 
This library is elaborately indexed in indici 210 , 211 , and 212 . The volumes 
are now dispersed, many of them being found in the Miscellanea, especially 
arm. VIII. All those which seemed likely to contain American material were 
found, and are noted in the proper places. 
COLLECTION OF CLEMENT XI. 
This collection, also cited as Biblioteca Albani, of 265 volumes, pertains 
almost wholly to the long pontificate of Clement XI. (Albani, 1700-1721). 8 It 
is very well inventoried in indici 143 and 144 . The material was bound with 
relation to subjects or rather countries, so that the use of the inventory is less 
laborious. 108 , 154 , 158 , 163 , 164 , 168 were examined without result. Refer¬ 
ences to material found, follow. The volumes are not paged. 
101 . This contains material relating to religious persons and places in Spain 
in the time of Philip V. Note is made of, “ Catalogo degl’Arci- 
vescovi e Vescovi di Spagna e dell’Indie Occidentali Spagnole ”, and 
of, “ Due Lettere di Mons. Michel Ant 0 Vescovo di Cartagena nel- 
lTndie Occidentali ”, one to the Congregation of the Council and one 
to the Pope, on the question of his absence from his diocese. 
103 . This contains material relating to favors and privileges accorded by 
popes to kings of Spain and other countries. It was examined and 
note was made of, “ Breve di Gregorio XIII.”, Mar. 3, 1573, extend¬ 
ing the favor of a subsidy in the Indies, in behalf of the King of 
Spain. 1 f. 
104 . Volume on the same subject. It was examined and found to contain, 
“ Minuta di Breve dello . . . [Clement XI.] . . . formato di proprio 
pugno per il Sussidio accordato da detto Re nel 1717 ”, Jan. 16, 
1717, 2 fif.; and copy of the brief in 6 fif. 
Appendix II. contains writings concerning the subsidy demanded by 
Philip V., on ecclesiastical goods in the Western Indies, among which 
are, “ Discorso, Informatione sopra il Sussidio ”, 11 fif. ; “ Informa¬ 
tion fatta al Re di Spagna dal Commissario General della Cru- 
ciata ”, 9 fif.; “ Progetto di XXIV navi da Guerra da mantenersi a 
spesa della Cruciata ”, 22 fif. ; “ Breve dTnnoc. XII. sopra gli Sussi- 
dii a lui accordati per Defesa dell'America infestata dagl’Eretici ”, 
July 4, 1699, 4 fif.; “ Atti d’una Cong e particolare di sei Cardinali ”, 
July 12, 1699, 2 fif.; “ Direzzione data al Nunzio di Spagna sopra 
questa materia ”, 2 fif.; “ Traduzzione della Lettera del Marchese di 
Manzera scritta al Monsig. Nunzio Ap’lico nelle Spagne sopra la 
Contribuzione degl’Ecclesiastici Americani accordata da S. S ta al 
Re Carlo II., alia 29 d’Agosto, 1699 ”, 1 f.; “ Due Lettere stampate di 
Monsig. Giuseppe Archinto A. V. di Milano, Nunzio nelle Spagne, 
e Collettore Generale della S. Sede promulgate in Madrid ”, on the 
same subject, 1699, 7 fif. 
8 The greater portion of the great Albani library was purchased by the Prussian gov¬ 
ernment, and sunk on the voyage from Civita Vecchia; portions of it are in the collec¬ 
tion of Count Hugo Buoncompagni, and elsewhere. This is an independent collection, 
but is sometimes, with resulting confusion, referred to as the Biblioteca Albani. 
