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complete and full, and any resignations of bishoprics in America are doubt¬ 
less noted. 
Libri Obligationum pro Servitiis. 31 volumes, 1408-1798, with many la¬ 
cunae. This series records the payments made by newly appointed bishops for 
various customary expenses incurred at Rome. For the earlier period such rec¬ 
ords are considered the best from which to compile a series episcoporum, but 
for the period since the discovery of America the Lateran series of bulls should 
be better, although lacunae there might be supplemented here. It is difficult 
to see what other use these purely formal records of payments could serve. 
The volumes for the period 1697-1798 were examined. There were six vol¬ 
umes, and a lacuna for the years 1729-1755. The volumes are written in a 
difficult hand, but are systematically arranged and are not difficult to use. 
The payments for the bishoprics of Spanish America seem to occur regularly, 
but none were noted for Quebec or Baltimore. The “ Elenco ” notes as lack¬ 
ing, for the earlier period, volumes for 1503-1512, 1517-1522, 1551-1587, 1604- 
1612, 1653-1660, and 1672-1678. 
TaxarumP This series records payments made for the grant of the pallium. 
For the eighteenth century and after, there are two volumes only, 1756-1777 
and 1778-1815 (except 1809-1815). Both of these were examined and nu¬ 
merous payments noted by the bishops of Mexico, Lima, La Plata, and Manila, 
but none by those of Canada or the United States. 
Of the other series there were examined: 
Annate-Quindennii, 1696-1710, two volumes. These contain no American 
items except one quinquennial payment, Apr. 16, 1697, ^v a monastery at 
Lima, and it seemed safe to conclude that nothing relating to the subject would 
be found. 
Decretorum , 1709-1711, containing decrees of various kinds relating to mat¬ 
rimony and divorce, did not contain American material nor presage such in 
other volumes. 
Entrata e Uscita delle Decime , 1702-1714, 1716-1718, one volume, did not 
contain American material, and it was obvious that the other volumes would 
be equally barren. 
The other series it seemed safe to leave unexamined. 12 
In addition to the archives of the Camera, certain volumes described as 
“ Archivio dei Gesuiti ” 13 exist here, and have been used, but are negligible 
for American history. 
BIBLIOTECA CASANATENSE . 14 
This library was formerly the property of the Dominicans, and is located 
in the block of buildings, before 1870 their headquarters, immediately behind 
S. Maria sopra Minerva, from which it took the name it bore previous to its 
11 This series is not noted, at least by this title, in the elenco or the table by Meister; 
I can, therefore, describe only the volumes examined. 
12 The series of “ Formatarum ” was not examined; vols. XI. to XIV. cover the 
period 1492-1524. See L. Schutz, “ Die Libri Formatarum der Camera Apostolica ”, 
m Romische Quartalschrift, VIII. 451-472. These relate to general ordinances and 
special dispensations for conferring orders, and could hardly contain American mate¬ 
rial. 
“ Blok, Verslag, 1901, pp. 62-64, notes volumes for Belgium and Holland. 
P- J* Blok, Verslag van Ondcrzoekingen naar Archivalia in Italie, pp. 69-70; A. C. 
Voglio and G. Colaneri, La Biblioteca Casanatense; Cenni Storico-Bibliograhci (Rome, 
1896, pp. 18). 
