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714 (col. 39-B-13). f. 150, Entrata, 1587; f. 174, Entrata under Gregory 
XIII. 
881 (col. 34-C-24). State of the revenue. 166[?]. 
942 (col. 34-C-12). f. 491. State of the revenue. 1724. 
1168 (C0I.34-A-7). f. 260. State of the revenue under Innocent XI. 
1164 . f. 275. State of the revenue under Innocent XIII. and Clement 
XII. 
Relazioni. The following are so closely and illegibly written as to have ren¬ 
dered it impossible to exhaust them, though no reference to America appeared 
on a cursory examination: 
242 (col. 38-A-17). “ Relazione Diario de’ Viaggi di Francia e di Spa- 
gna dell’Em 0 e R mo Sig. G. Francisco Barberino.” 1632. 196 ff. 
243 (col. 38-A-18). “ Relazione della Legazione in Francia del Sig. 
Cardinale Flavio Chigi l’anno 1664, di Monsig. Ravizzi.” 209 ff. 
BIBLIOTECA LANCISIANA. 
This library, situated on the first floor of the Ospedale di S. Spirito in the 
Borgo S. .Spirito, is open every day, except the customary governmental holi¬ 
days, from 9130 to 2130. The manuscript material for the modern age is al¬ 
most wholly medical. The catalogue gives manuscripts and printed books in 
one list which is alphabetically arranged by authors and subjects. A hasty 
examination revealed no American material, but a systematic search might 
yield something on American herbs and drugs. 
BIBLIOTECA VALLICELLIANA . 19 
The Biblioteca Vallicelliana was founded by Achilles Statius Lusitanus, and 
belonged to the Filippini, or priests of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. It is 
housed in their former oratory next the Chiesa Nuova on the Cor so Vittorio 
Emanuele. The approach is to the left through an interior court, up two flights, 
through an interior court to the right, and by a small door and office rooms, to 
the splendid central hall or library proper. It is at present in the charge of 
the Societa Romana di Storia Patria. It is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 
Saturdays from 10 to 3. The manuscripts are indexed alphabetically in three 
volumes and three appendixes, 20 but there remain recent acquisitions which 
have not yet been assimilated to this plan. 21 The collection has been, and still 
is, enriched by continuous accessions, and is stronger in manuscripts of the 
eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries than any other in Rome. 
Particularly important are the collections inade bv Baronius and Bianchini. 
On the other hand, the great bulk of the material, at least that touching Amer¬ 
ica, consists of copies rather than originals, and these copies are often extracts 
in the form of notes, rather than copies in mass such as are found in other 
Roman libraries. References to pertinent material found follow. 
19 Origine, Progresso e Stato della Biblioteca Vallicelliana nel 1838 ; also, “Relazione 
presentata a S. E. il Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione su lo Stato della Biblioteca Val¬ 
licelliana ”, in Atti della R. Societa Romana di Storia Patria (Rome, 1885), pp. 30; Blok, 
Verslag, 1901, pp. 68, 69; L. Pastor, Geschichte der Pdpste (Freiburg, 1886), III. 125. 
20 “ Index Alphabeticus Universalis Cognominum, Auctorum, Sanctorum, et Virorum 
Illustrium, Actorum, Vitarum, et Monumentorum quae in Codicibus manuscriptis Grae- 
cis et Latinis Bibliothecae Vallicellianae continentur, MDCCXLIX ”, and others with 
similar titles. These are found at a standing desk to the right of the entrance in the 
main room. 
21 See e. g., “ I Manuscritti di Costantino Corvisieri ”, in Archivio della R. Soc. Rom. di 
Stor. Pat., 1908, pp. 409-430. 
