Registra avenionensia, 1316-1418.

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Registra avenionensia, 1316-1418.

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These registers are so named because they remained in Avignon until 1783, when they were sent to the Vatican Archives. The Avignon registers chiefly contain the minutes or drafts of bulls and letters sent out by the papal chancery at Avignon between 1316 and 1418. The Avignon registers contain a considerable amount of cameral material that was bound into the volumes for its preservation. See Boyle, pp. 114-131, for an extensive discussion on the nature of these registers. Boyle notes that "although the term 'register' usually means a file-copy of an incoming or outgoing letter, it is more elastic in the case of the Avignon Registers. Basically the entries in the RA are drafts rather than copies of letters, yet the Chancery clearly looked on these drafts as registered copies." In many cases the RA draft was later copied into the more formal Vatican Registers. However, for a number of reasons explicated by Boyle, the texts in the RV do not always agree with the text in the RA.

49 linear m. (349 no. v. and 4 appendices).

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