PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES IN ROME. 
BIBLIOTECA ALESSANDRINA. 
This library is located in the Universita della Sapienza. Its entrance is 
from the Via dell’Universita. It is open to the public from Nov. i to June 30, 
from 9 to 2, and from 6 to 9. There is a rather crowded ground-floor room for 
reference and the consultation of ordinary books, but those who use manu¬ 
scripts and rare volumes are taken above to the spacious and stately original 
library. This library was founded by Alexander VII., 1655-1667, who pre¬ 
sented to it a large portion of the printed books left by the Duke of Urbino. 1 
Later there were secured the manuscript collection, largely Oriental, of one of 
the Caetani family, a monk of the Benedictine order, and that of Peter Francis 
de Rubeis, dean of the college of consistorial advocates. There is a catalogue 
of manuscript codices by Narducci. 2 
None of the manuscripts were examined, as none seemed to have any rela¬ 
tion to the subject, with the possible exception of the following: 
68, or I. f. 14 . flf. 1-112. “ Relationi del Trattato della Tregua di Fiandra che 
concluse in An versa alii 9 d’Aprile 1609, fatta dal Cardinale Benti- 
voglio.” 3 
There are two pieces relating to the Philippines. 
BIBLIOTECA ANGELICA. 4 * 
This library was founded by Angelicus Rocca and was in 1605 given to the 
Augustinians. 6 It is magnificently housed in their former monastery adjoining 
the church of San Agostino on the piazza of the same name. It is open from 
8 to 2 every day, except the holidays usually observed by government insti¬ 
tutions and the last two weeks in October. It contains 2190 manuscripts in 
Latin characters, which have been elaborately catalogued by E. Narducci. 
This catalogue is in three volumes, of which the first has been printed. 6 There 
is also an index on cards. There are two systems of reference: one by a con¬ 
tinuous numeration, the other by letters and numbers. Many of the docu¬ 
ments relating to English history have been transcribed and copies are in the 
Public Record Office of London. 7 Numbers 1216 (S-6-8), 1218 (S-6-10), 
1219 (S-6-n), 1222 (S-6-14), 1224 (S-6-16), 1229 (S-7-3), 1230 (S-7-4), 
1239 (S-7-13), 1323 , 1598 , 1681 , 1747 , 1866 , 1908 , 2036 , and 2083 were ex¬ 
amined without result. References to material found follow, but none of 
the documents can be considered important. 
Ill (B-2-5). “ Epistolae et Brevia ad Principes ”, Urban VIII. and Gregory 
XV. 663 ff. 
f. 378. “ Archiepiscopo Mexicano.” 
992 (R-6-7). “ Sac. Rituum Cong.; Beatificat is et Canonizat is Servi Dei D. 
Jois de Palafox e Mendoza Epi.”. 51 if. 
1 Enrico Narducci, Notizie della Biblioteca Alessandrina (Rome, 1872, p. 50). 
2 Enrico Narducci, Catalogus Codicum Manus crip torum praeter Orientalium qui in 
Bibliotheca Alessandrina Romae adservantur (Rome, 1877). 
3 This is probably to be found in the Nunziatura di Fiandra. 
4 Blok, Verslag (1901), pp 67, 68; L. Pastor, Geschichte der Pdpste (Freiburg, 1886), 
III. 125. 
8 Tablet in entrance hall. 
r Rome, 1893. 
r Roman transcripts (Stevenson), no. 15. 
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