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The instances are as follow:-Consiglio, &c., of which we shall have something to say — Copia d'una lettera scritta alli quattro di Genaio. 1550 — Declaratione de Giubileo — Disordine della Chiesa — Discorsi sopra li Fioretti di San Francesco Due lettere d'un Cortigiano nelle quali si dimostra che la Fede — Matrimonio delli Preti & delle Monache. This article has already been alluded to, as standing in the last Roman Index; but, let the reader notice, without the Verg. It would have been going too far to omit the name of Vergerio as a separate article. And it is not omitted. But how is it inserted? Not in the way usual in most, if not all, alphabetic catalogues of the time, by placing it under the initial letter of the Christian name, but under V — Vergerius, Episcopus de Capo d'histria. It may just be observed farther, that the top of recto (signature B. 8) D. XV. is a reference to the first portion of the Jus Canonicum, the Decretum, and the place intended is Dist. XV. iii., Sancta Romana Ecclesia, the list of books condemned by Pope Gelasius, a.d. 493. The Decretalibus, Sig. C. 1, verso, signifies the Libri Decretales which follow the Decretum. But ex Vag. Io. Papæ xcii., on the same page,