Scope and Content A 65-page handwritten manuscript of a biography of John McMullen by an unknown author; two newspaper clippings about the death of Chicago's bishop Thomas Patrick Foley and McMullen's appointment as administrator of the diocese of Chicago; one newspaper clipping about Davenport's "new Bishop" McMullen; two newspaper clippings about the death of McMullen in 1883. Also two bulls of appointment for Henry Cosgrove as bishop of Davenport, one from the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the early modern European documents (dating from the 16th to 18th centuries) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of early modern European documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (early modern European) and genre (diplomatics). As such, it is composed of a wide variety of diplomatic genres, including: papal bulls, lease and releases, leases, surrenders,...

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Papal Bull of Leo X commending bishop elect Aleria, Franceso Palavicini, to the favor of the Casa San Giorgio.