Registra Vaticana, 872 (copy ca. 1070)-1605 (bulk 1198-1572).

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Registra Vaticana, 872 (copy ca. 1070)-1605 (bulk 1198-1572).

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The series Registra Vaticana is so called because it was already housed in the Vatican palace (in the Bibliotheca Secreta) when it became part of the original Archives under Paul VI. The RV volumes fill Armaria I-XXVIII in the ASV. These are copies of papal bulls and letters, and so this is one of the largest series in the Archives, numbering 2,042 volumes, of which twenty-one are duplicates. RV 1 was written at Montecassino and contains letters of John VIII (872). RV 2 contains letters and notitiae of Gregory VII (1073-1085) and RV 3 is a later copy. RV 4 begins the continuous series with letters of Innocent III (1198-1216). Through the thireenth and fourteenth centuries papal letters were generated in several ways. The process that led from a supplication to a common letter of grace was carried out within the Chancery. Later, in the course of the fifteenth century, the expedition of grants of favor was increasingly the work of the specialized and separate Datary. "Curial" letters began with privileged petitions from cardinals and curial officials, but often ended in common letters. "Close," "secret," and "cameral" letters were prepared by papal secretaries or by notaries of the Camera. But all papal letters were physically prepared and sealed in the Chancery, and then they were registered in these parchment Chancery volumes. Boyle, pp. 103- 113, provides an excellent introduction to the origins and use of RV and explains the relation of this series to other medieval holdings of the ASV. He cautions that the RV text of a letter was normally taken, in the fourteenth century, from the Registra Avenionensia copy rather than directly from the original letter itself, and also that many extant original papal letters were never registered, so that the registers cannot be assumed to contain a complete record of any papal business. In 1389 the paper Registra Lateranensia began in the Roman Curia, to fulfill the first-record purpose of the Registra Avenionensia. Common letters were registered in RL, while the secret and cameral letters were recorded in parchment volumes, which should now be in RV. Later volumes of the RV series mostly contain letters originating in the Camera and Secretariat.

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