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Archives of the Iristi Dominican College, San Clemente, Rome
A SUMMARY REPORTCompiled in october I952 by REV. CONLETH ΚEARNS, O .PThe Church and Convent of San Clemente, together With those of San Sisto Vecchio, were informalty committed to the Irish Province of the Dominican Order in I 667, and formalty handed over to the Iristi Dominicans in I 677. Since then they have remained in Iristi Dom-
During that period of nearly three centuries a great number of recordsand other documents have accumulated, forming the collection nowhoused in The Archives,' a room on the first floor of the Conveni adjoining the upper part of the portico of the Church of San Clemente. Thenumber of items ' in this collection amounts to OVer 4oo ; but as many of these items are themSelves made up of collections of documenis, thetotal number of Single documents runS to Some thousandS. These are stored on Shelves in loched walicases, but they have not yetheen arranged or fully classisied in any systematic way. Nor is there any complete Index or Catalogue of the whole collection, though usefulIndices exist for Some special sections of it. For the purposes of the present bries repori the materiai may be dealt with under the followinglieads
y On the Dominican and Irish connexions of this ' geminatum coenobium ' see De Burgo, Hibernia Dominicana, Cologne 1762, pp. 366-4I5, and Supplementum,pp. 84o-53 ; L. Nolan, The Irish Dominicans in Rome, Rome I913.
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IRISH DOMINICAN COLLEGEL CONVENTUAL RECORD S
These consist of such items as Account Books, Church and SacristyBooks, Records of subjecis received or professed in the Order, Conventuat Annals and Chronicies, innutes of Meetings of Conventuat Councii and of Academic Councit. Typices items are
Clemente,' 22 Feb. 1659 to 2o Dec 1727 115 folios . a. Parchment bound ΜS book, 142 folios, entilled ' Liber de Ratione Studiorum Generalis Studii Conventuum S Srum. Sixti et Clementis de Urbe, Sacri ordinis Praedicatorum, Prae. Hiberniae 1743. '
4. Parchment bound MS 8o-75 pp. ' in quo continentur Receptiones ad habitum et Professiones Novitiorum,' Ι676-Ι789. 5. Parchment bound MS inscribed ' Inventario di S S. Sisto e Clemente 16I7-1677.' Contains fuit lisis of household and church effecisos the two Convenis ; recoros detests of donations of church plate etc. to the community by ecclesiaStical and other personages. At the end, a record of burials of friars in the two churches Dom I 645to 1664-oesy one heing Irish.
II. DOCUMENTS OF MORE GENERAL IRIS HECCLESIASTICAL INTEREST
These are mostly origines documentS Or contemporary transcripis ortranslations, dealing with Irish Church assairs, mainly in 17th and 18th centuries. Their existence in San Clemente is due to the facts that a) successive Fathers of the Convent hept up an actiVe interest, by correspondence with Ireland and by activity in Vatican circles in Rome, in the affairs of the Irish Church ; b) severat Bishops of Irish Sees in those centuries were Irish Dominicans, who did much of their Roman businessthrough San Clemente ; c) Fathers of San Clemente frequently actedas ossiciat Roman Agenis for other Irish Bishops as weli. The records of these activities have been arranged and permanently bound in a series of seven ' Codices ' and four ' Volumes ' ; and the series has been provided with a comprehensive Index or Table of Contenis
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in a separate volume. The principat items are contained in
6. The Index to this whole series Index : Archivium Ven. Collegii Sancti Clementis de Urbe.'7. Codex Ι : Miscellanea de Hib. Diocesibus I 628-I77 I)'.
III. PERSONAL RECORDS, IOURNALS, LETTERS, ETC.
These include Io. A bound ΜS volume, Ι63 pp., containing transcripis of letters etc. exchanged in a theological controversy between Fr Μaster
Edmd. Burke a Dominican of Athenry ' and 8 The Lord Bpp. of Elfin Doctor Carbry Keily.' List of contenis at beginning. The whole volume is in the handwriting of Thomas De Burgo, authoros Hibernia Dominicana, who was nephew of the Edmund Burhe
a) Father Lovis Nolan's collection14. A bound ΜS book in which the items consist os stips of paperpasted on to the pages. It is labelled ' I. Gleanings Dom Archives. a. Μateriat for life of Fr T. N. Burhe, O .P.' Ι 83o- Ι 883 . It contains Irish Dominican materiai as sollows : i) On p. 1, a typed list of various fources in the Archives of the Dominican Μaster Generat where materiai concerning the Irish
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Province is to he found. ii) A series of ΜS extracis copied on stips of paper, taken Domvarious Archives in France, containing references to individual Iristi Dominicans in France in the I7th and Ι 8th centuries. iii) A similar series transcribed Dom the Archives of the Dominican Master Generat, referring to individual Iristi Dominicanson the continent in the Ι7th and Ι 8th centuries. iv) Typed carbon copies of many documents in the Master
b) Father Michael Costello's Collections
Father Costello, the transcriber of the Iristi Annales which have now been edited Dom his notes, lived in Rome Dom 1867 tili his death in 19o6, and devoted a diligent lilatime to transcribing thaland a great deal of other material referring to Ireland, Englandand Scottand, in Roman Archives. The fruits of his labours repose in the San Clemente Archives, and include - 15. A bound ΜS volume, 296 pp. of which ΙΙa are blank), containing extracis Dom various ΜS collections, mostly the Casanate Library, dealing with Church affairs in Ireland, and largely in Scotland also, especialty in the 17th century. An inserted stip of paper describes the contenis as ' Copte di Documenti estratii da vari Archivi relativi alia Storia deli' Irlanda e Scogia : Collegi etc . . I 278-16O8. 'I6. A bundie of ΜSS wrapped in newspaper, some in hand of Fr Costello, but mostly in another hand. Transcripis Dom Roman Archives dealing with affairs in England and Scottand, mostly Ι6th century. References to Annates of places in Scotland in the 143o's are in
Prelates Warning them against the usurpation of Bartholomaeus, olim Baren. archiepiscopus per Violenciam ... in apostolicam sedem intrusUS.
18. A bundie of transcripis labelled ' Vat. Arch. , principalty Englishos the poni. of Nicholas V. 'Ι9. Item ' Scottish Bulis, Bons. IX to Alex. VI, one os Paul IV. 'ao. Item ' Englisti, Scottish and Scandinavian Annales.'21. Item 'English, Scottish and Scandinavian oblig. etc.' 22. Three similar bundies, unlabelled.
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SAN CLEMENTE, ROMEI 49 V. SOME PRINTED PAMPHI ETS ETC. OF HISTORICALINTEREST
23. Bound Volume, 292 pp., of printed documents connected with thecase s Causa Fratres Mendicantes Galviae inter et Parochos ejusdem oppidi A.D. Ι722 ', and other litigation os Iristi ecclesiastics in the years I734, I 737, 1739, 174O, IJ42. IndeX of itemS On p. X
of this Volume. 24. Similar volume os documenis, 184 pp., in the CaSe CRUSa . . . Episcopum ossoriensem Thomam de Burgo O .P. inter et Sacerdotem Patritium Molloy, super Parochia S. Mariae, Mikenniae,A.D. 176Ι.' Index at heginning.
25. Parchment bound book containing printed lisis of the theses defended by the Irish Dominican Students of Holy Cross, LouVain, Under the regency of Fr Edmund de Burgo, O .P., Ι7O3 ; alSO the OpuSculum os Same, Responsio ad dissertationem Liberii Gratiani, Lovanti 17o8, 86 pp. Μany ΜS annotations, by author. See aboVe,
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tion be justified, and it has been deliberalely avoided in this guide .
From the potnt of vlew of the student of Irish lanmage and literatureor that of the student of Iristi ecclesiasticat history this is one of the most important private collections os manuscripis in the country. Mucii of
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os information. For instance, our manuscript of the Annals of the Four Masters was not in Ireland when O 'Donovan prepared his edition and was not seen by him. Yet, it is what one might cali the ' ossiciat ' copy, the One that was Sent out for printing and publishing at Louvain. Ofimportance for the student of Iristi ecclesiasticat history are severat different manuscript collections, in particular the Wadding papers, whicli coverseverat decades of the Seventeenth centUry, and also a number of rare printed books, pamphleis, and theSeS. There are also Some isolateditems of value for the generat ecclesiasticat historian, the literary historian, and the military historian. The clites interest and value of the collection is, as one would expect, for the history of Iristi Franciscanismat home and abroad. It contains a large number of ossiciat documenis, archives papers, priVate letterS, literary WorkS, OL by, io, or concerning
A. Manuscripis in the Irish Language. Over forty Volumes . Chiesty of value for the student of Iristi language and literature but also includingsome materiat os importance for the student of medievat church historyand Iristi political history, e. g., Ι) a fragment of the Book of Leinster Iath cent.) containing the martyrology of Tallaght and miscellaneous hagiography ; a) lives of various Irish saints ; 3) an original of the Annals of the Four Masters covering the period Dom the beginning down to A.D. ΙΙ69 ; 4 one of the beSi and earliest copies of Κeating 's history of
factory account of most of these manuscripis by Sir Iolin Gilbert in C, rep. 4, app., pp. 6OI-5. A catalogue os ali the Iristi manuscripis at present at Miliney has been compiled by Dr. Myles Dillon and the present writer, and will, it is hoped, Shortly be Sent to the printers. B. Codices comprising theolora, philosoph, literature, etc. About IOO. Os use for the literary historian, the bibliographer, and the Student of
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the history of ideas. Includes codices of Luke Wadding and his Common- place Book), Bonaventure Baron, and Francis Harold ; courses of lectures delivered by Bonaventure Burhe at the archiepiscopal Seminary, Prague, c. I 687, and by Francis Coughlan at St. Anthony's College, Louvain, c. 171o ; notes of philosophical and theological lectures taken at Romeand Louvain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Iristi studenis,
Franciscan and non-Franciscan ; SOme Volumes of Verse ; etc. Thereare severat eXcellent Vellum codices containing the works of St. Bernardineos Siena, St. Jolin Capistran, Francis de Platea, and others. Also the Sacco di Roma and a vellum in GeeZ and Amharic containing the miracles of the Blessed Virgin and other items, as weli as Other codices containing the writings attributed to St. Francis, and tracts by Alberi de Sartheano, Raymund Luli, and Iolin os Wales, but none of these is os direct interest for Our present purpOSe. The Section also contains the Carrich ΜS,so called hecause it was discovered in the Franciscan Friary at Carrick-On- Suir about 192o by Father Gregory Cleary, O .F. Μ. It is a fragmentos the history of the Franciscan provinceS of Ireland, Scottand, England ,
etc., compiled by a German FranciScan, C. I 63O.
C. Manuscripis almost soleb of Irish Franciscan interest, and of an ossiciat or semi-officiat nature. I) Liber archivi provincialis collegii Lovaniensis S. Antonii de Padua
Fratrum Minorum Hibernorum. Includes a comprehensive collectionos the chapter bilis of the Iristi Franciscan province from 1629 to 1776as weli as many Other documents of prime importance for Iristi Franciscan history. A list os contents was publis hed by Father T. A. O 'Reilly, O .F.Μ., in Archivum franciscanum historicum, uti Quaracchi, Ι914 , 749-59. A transcript os ali the documents in it down to 1717, by Rev. Father Cathaldus Giblin, O .F.Μ., is now with the printerS. a) Chapter bilis of the Iristi Franciscan province .
Those for the seventeenth and some of those for the eighteenth centuryare in the Liber . . . LOVaniensis. All others stili extant with the exception of those mentioned in no . 3) have recently been brought together hom various Sources by the Rev. Father Bartholomew Egan and the present writer, placed in chronological order, and bound . Some of these chapter bilis are originalS, Some are authenticated Or contemporarycopies, SOme are printed, SOme are in manuscript . They are a primesource for Iristi Franciscan history, giving as they do the list os appotnt-ments to ossice made at each chapter, provinciat SuperiorS, guardians
of each friary in Ireland, etc. 3) A bound volume of chapter bills covering the period Ι739-94, which formerly belonged to the archives of the Franciscan Friary, Dublin.
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F. Irish hagiographicat manuscripis and papers in Latin Ι7th cent.). Includes transcripis of lives of Irish saints by Fathers Iolin Goolde, Iolin Colgan, etC. G. Original ossciat documents on Delium. I) Papal bulis, briefs, and rescripis. Includes buli os Pope Paul V
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a) Royal granis, privileges, licences, etc. Includes grant of money byΚing Henry VIII for the upheep of the holy places at Ierusalem ; privileges conceded by kings of Spain ; etc. 3) Archducat licences, etc. Includes the placitum of the Archduhes Alberi and Isabella for the founding of the Iristi Franciscan college at
4) Certificates, testimoniais, etc. Includes testimonial signed by Richard Arthur, bishop of Limerich, and his clergy, in favour of Iohn
the Irish Franciscan historians, Fathers R. L. Browne and E. B. FitZmaurice ; etc.