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N. Neres-cultius. Almost exclusiVely Os IriSh Franciscan interest 19th-2Oth cent. . P. Photographic copies of documents froni other collections, chias; Englishand continentat. Almost exclusiVely of IriSh Franciscan interest. Q. Other modern transcripis. Chiesty Os IriSh Franciscan interest. Includes copies of documents from the London and Dublin Public Recordoffice ; the Royal Library at Brusseis ; archives of the Congregation de propaganda fri I archives of Napies ; Florence ; and Troyes ; St. Isidore 'sCollege, Rome ; various Irish Poor Clare conVentS ; and alSO a transcripthy a former librarian, Father T. A. O 'Reilly, of the Liber ordinationum os St. Anthony's College, Louvain, of whicli the original or prototype isnow preserved in the Belgian FranciScan archiVeS at St.-Trond St.- Truiden . It is intended to subdivide this Section as follows accordingto the provenance of the transcriptS : Ι) continental libraries ; a) Britis h
catalogues and calendarS and guides to the materials in it. Note that there is also a number of rare printed books of value for thestudent of Irish ecclesiasticat history, for instance, the works of Peter
Walsii, Anthony Bruodin, Denis Taasse, and also Philip O 'SullevanBeare 's Historiae Catholicae Iberniae compendium I62 I) ; David Rothe 'sAnalecta 1617) ; Richard Stanthursi's De rebus in Hibernia gestis 158 ) ;Nicholas Sander's De origine ac progressu schismatis anglicani 1586) ;Archdehin's Brevis Hiberniae notitia 167Ι). There is also a considerablenumher of rare pamphleis, leasteis, broadSheeis, posters, theological and philosophical theses with names of defenderS, chairmen, etc.). Os interest for the historian of Iristi politics are the clandestine and under-ground publications of the Sinn Fhin and civit war periods, etc.
Nearly ali the items mentioned under sections A, B, C I, C 8, D, F, G, H, came from St. Isidore 'S College, Rome, in 1872, and of these C 1, F, and nearly ali of A and C 9 came to Rome in the early part of the last century from Louvain. Some of the items classified under A came fromother Irish friaries or as gifts stom societies or individuals ouiside the Franciscan order. The chapter bilis under C a came from disserent Irish friaries, in particular from Neriord, Dublin, Drogheda and Cork.
hom the houses mentioned in these sections, respectively. The E items
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CLASSI FICATION AND CATALOGUING
The more delailed classification and the cataloguing and editing of these manuscripis proceedS according as time and circumStances permit, but the work is necessarily SlΟw. The divisions indicated above not merely reveat the different categories of documents in the library, but also serve as a guide to their Shelf-location. The letters of the alphabet marking the different divisions correspondwith the letters marked on the different bays in the Strong-room.
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Archives of the Irish Augustinians, Rome
The archives of the Iristi Augustinians in Rome are sadly incomplete. The records whicli remain are valvabie, hut With few exceptions theylach those personat documents which bring an immediate breath of fres hair and reality into the most os archivat collections. Furthermore, theserecords are os a locat conventuat nature and shed litile direct light onthe more generat issues of Irish ecclesiasticat history. Nevertheless, the patient research worker can abstraci much that is enlightening Domthe legal and financiat records which have surVived. TO understand the present condition of these archives and the tities of iis disserent records one needs an oviline sketch of Irish Augustinianhistory in Rome .h The friars are now establis hed at St. Patrick's College, Via Piemonte. This monastery repreSentS the Seventh stratum os Iris hAugustinian establis liment in the Eternat City. Noting the choppingand changing whicli on seven occasions disturbed Iristi Augustinianlife in Rome, one wonders that any considerable hody of archives sur-Vived. The records whicli remain are mostly of a legal and financialnature. In times of dispersion and en rced change of residence it is documents such as these Whicli superiorS are primarily intent On pre
centUry. Aster Severat ineffective attempis to Secure a college for students
in Spain, France, the Low Countries, the Augustinians were granted the priory of San Μatteo in Merulana at Rome in I 656. High hopes of toleration after the restoration of the English monarchy, and lack of sufficient regular income for San Matteo, decided the Irish frius to
San Matteo in Merulana , pp. 327-8 Santa Maria in Posterula , p. 824 St. Patrick'S .
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relinquish this house in 1661 to the Italian Augustinians of the Perusian Congregation. Not one origines document SurVives in the present archivesto illumine the first fix years of Irish Augustinian life in Rome. By Apostolic Bries, a March Ι739, Pope Clement XII restored SanMatteo to the Irish Augustinians at the request of Iames III, the YoungPretender . San Matteo Served as a noVitiate, a philosophical and theological college untii the arrival of Generat Beririer and the French troops in I 798. During that summer San Matteo and thirty other ecclesiasticalbuildings were demolished by the French military authorities on thescore of strategical necessity. The Augustinians had time to removesome valvabies before the SuperiorS returned to Ireland. But only asmali collection os documents-and those Dom the last quarter of the eighteenth century-Survive stom the San Matteo archives. At present there is stili some uncertainty about the continuity of IrishAugustinian life in Rome aster the expulsion Dom San Μatteo. It is asserted that a pissa-terre was maintained by some Iristi Diars whowere giVen temporary occupation of the nearby Celestine monastery of Sant' Eusebio about I 8oo. There is somewhat more evidence for thestatement that the Augustinians were at Sant' EuSebio during the years
18o8-14. It is belleved that in I 814 some Irish Augustinians took possession of another Celestine monastery, that of Santa Maria in Posterula, on the bank of the Tiber. This occupation Was confirmed by a papaldecree of 12 Feb. I 819. With this grant Went the righis to the properties of Sant' Eusebio which appears to have been atready a subjecthouse of Santa Maria in Posterula. The greater part of the presentarchives in St. Patrick's College comes stom the archives of Santa Maria and of Sant' Eusebio Prolonged security was not to be the tot of the friars at Posterula. In 1886 the Roman municipat authorities gave the Augustinians notice that their bulldings were scheduled to be levelled in accordance withcity-planning schemes. Restitution would be made, but it was an Augustinian responsibility to find another sultable bullding elsewhere. Theseiars decided to estabiisti a college for their studenis in the then unbuiit Ludovisi quarter. In Ι 886, on the personat recommendation os Pope Leo XIII and withthe ossiciat support of the Irish hierarchy, it was decided that the Iristi Augustinians be given charge of a church to be bulli in honour of St. Patrich beside the new college. Since the municipat authorities hadgiven the Posterula community only two years grace, and St. Patrick's College did not become fit for occupation untii Ι 892, the Augustinians gained temporary occupation of the church and monastery of San Cario at Corso during the years 1888-92. Few records have Survived con-
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cerning the laur years transition period at San Cario. The foundation stone of St. Patrick's Church was laid by Archbishop alfh of Dublin on I Feb. I 888. There is a substantial body of recordsconcerning the organisation for, and bullding os, St. Patrick's Collegeand Church. Nevertheless, even this documentation Would appear tobe incomplete. The bullding of the church was discontinued in I 896due to financiat difficulties and differences of opinion belween the members of The International Committee for the Iristi National Church of St. Patrich, Rome.' There are not many documents in the archives forthe years Ι 898-Ι9Ι3 Since during that period only a Sheleton community
and the church was officiatly opened on Ι7 March I9ΙΙ.It may Sasely be assumed that many interesting and valvabie documents Dom the Iristi Augustinian Archives have perished. One of the first Iristi occupants of San Μatteo waS Brother Donogh, O. S.A., an ex-soldier of Eoghan Ruadh Ο'Nelli. Though Brother Donogh re- mained at San Matteo untii the close of the seVenteenth century, and has a secure place in Irish Μarian devotion, our knowledge of him is derived Dom an Italian source. Ke have proof that various individual Augustinians resident at San Matteo and Santa Maria in Posterula actedas Roman agenis for important ecclesiastical developments in Ireland, the United States and Australia during the eighteenth and nineleenthcenturieS. Their correspondence haS apparently periShed. It should be noted that pares of the archives of the Irish Augustinians in Rome have found their way at different times to Some of the Augustinian houses in Ireland. When Battersby was writing his Histos of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Deland 1856) he had at his disposai in
Dublin documents Dom Santa Maria in Posterula which have sinceperished. Other records DOm the Roman hOuses are, however, stillio be found in the Irish Augustinian Provinciat Archives, Dublin. Certainhouse-books Dom Santa Μaria in Posterula found their way to the Augustinian priories at Granislown, Co. Nexford, and Callan, CO. Mikenny. Connected with the history of the Irish Augustinians in Rome is their Summer villa at San Pio, GenaZZano. This was originalty a house of the Friars Minor Conventuat and was founded in the fifteenth century. It was SuppreSSed by the Italian government in Ι 877, and was bought by the Iristi Augustinians in I 88o.λThis repore is based on a rapid examination of the archives made in
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Iuly I953 at the request of the prior of St. Patrick's, Very ReverendF. I. Madden, O. S.A. The archives are contained in a large oahenpress in a room adjoining the prior'S. This press, which apparently came Dom Santa Maria in Posterula, is divided by shelves and subdivided by compariments. At present there is no comprehensive indexor catalogue of the archives, nor is the materiai arranged or classified in any SyStematic Way. HoweVer, the present prior has had the loose documents temporarily arranged by chronology and subject-matter ina series of folders. In this repori the materiat is listed in the order in whicli it is now to be found in the archives.
ab anno I 545- 169IJ. 'This large volume and the following five volumes form part os a series of cartularies Strongly bound and rei orced in red and white leather. There are Σοβ pages of copled documenis, papal, legat, financiat. The documents have been copied at different times and are authenticated. There is a generat index at the end of the volume. a. B-Liber Instrumentorum Collegii Sanctae Mariae in Posterula ab anno Ι69Ι- Ι7O3J. 'Larger than the preceding Volume, with documentS of the Same nature. There are 567 pages of copled documenis, authenticaled, indexed. 3. 8 C-Liber Instrumentorum Collegii Sanctae Mariae in Posterula ab anno Ι7O4- Ι794J.' Same in siZe and nature of documents as precessing Volume. Onthe sty-leas is the titie ' Liber Instrumentorum Venerabilis Monasterii Sancti Eusebii de Urbe, ordinis Sancti Benedicti Congregationis Coelestinorum, incipiens ab anno MDCCIV abbate D. Coelestino Guicciardino.'Pp. Ι79, indeXed. Contains a sew documents of the Irish Augustinians for the years I 839, I 853. 4. D-Liber Instrumentorum Collegii Sanctae Mariae in Posterula ab anno Ι782- Ι 837J.' Same in appearance and nature os documents as preceding Volumes. 67 folios numbered, 45 unnumbered, of authenticated transcripis. The documents are Celestine up to I 817. Augustinian documents begin in
the year Ι 8Ι9, and include copies of the decree of Alexander VII, 18 Sept. 1658, confirming the Irish Augustinian possession of San Matteo ; copyof the bries of Clement XII, a March 1739, restoring San Μatteo tothe Irish friars ; a document mentioning that the Irish friars at Posterula
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8. Account-book of Sant' Eusebio and Santa Maria in Posterula, Ι789
9. A slight volume dealing with income of Sant' Eusebio in the early
Io. Leather-bound volume giving the income of Sant' Eusebio forΙ8o7. 138 pages used. At the end are transcriptS of documents relatingto the Irish Augustinians in Rome, I 8 I, I 858. II. Large volume giving financiat accounts of Santa Maria in Posterula, I 822-38, with delatis of income and properties of the house. On thesty-leas ' Questo libro dourebbe essere ben conservato.' At the endos the volume is a valvable chronological list os students who arrivedat Posterula, Ι 83Ι-68, with dates of arriat, os religious profession, ofreturn to Ireland. Occasional biographical delatis are added. 12. Leather-bound volume listing income of Santa Maria in Posterula
I3. A massive leather bound volume, indexed, giving lisis of peopleand properties connected with the income of Posterula, Ι 85Ι-75. Only
I 4. Giornate deli' Introito ed Esito dei V. Collegio degli Agostiniani
Irlandesi di S. Maria in Posterula. ' Ι 83Ι-55.13 Continuation of the preceding Volume, I 856-79. I 6. Account-book of Santa Maria in Posterula, Oci, Ι 85Ι-Aug. I 867. 17. Folder of documents-petitions to the pope, Ι 87Ι-4 ; sinanciat and legat documentS, 183 I. I 8. Records of Irish Augustinians in Rome, I 875-Ι936.' An ossiciat diary hept by the senior student of Posterula. IS One Ofthe most valvabie records in the archives. The diary in another volumeis being continued to the present day.
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terula, Ι 836- .a5. Folder of documents inscribed ' Carte antiche da non perdersi, I 8 Ia Includes letters of the Celestines which go bach to the last quarter of the eighteenth centUry. 26. Folder of receipis ; nineleenth centUry. 27. Folder of legal and financiat documentS, I 832-99.28. Account-book of Posterula, Sept. Ι 867-Iune Ι 882. 29. Account-book of Posterula, May Ι 88Ι- Sept. Ι 88 I. 3o. Account-book of Posterula-San Cario at Corso St. Patrick's.
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43. Folder of documents dealing with the financiat and legat difficulties