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Archivum Archiepiscopale Melitense (A.A.M.)

Registrum ordinandorum ac privilegiorum clericalium

8 mss (1665-1884)

• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium 1665 - 1670, mm. 280 X 195, at present unbound, ff. 134. New enumeration. Not indexed. Contains privileges of ordination of various individuals, all issued by a number of Sicilian bishops after the death of the bishops of the Maltese diocese Balaguer and Buenos.

HMML Project No. Malta 4327  

• A.A.M. Registrum de Tempore Illmi et Rmi Cannaves, 1713 - 1721, ff. 131, mm. 285 X 195, cardbound. New enumeration. Indexed on f. 23. The mostly faded title on the cover may have referred to ordinations, but the volume contains a miscellany of attestationes, litterae pro confessariis, Dispensationes, Litterare discessionales, litterare testimoniales, pro coadiutoria canonicatum, pro vicariatu in parochia, pro idoneitate legendi libros prohibotos. ff. 108 - 131 blank.

HMML Project No. Malta 4328

• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium 1713 - 1722, ff. 403, mm. 200 X 295, cardbound. Title on cover: Registrum Ordinationum ab Anno 1713 ad 1722. The ms. covers in the main the episcopate of Bishop Cannaves, but included many ordinations made by Sicilian bishops, especially Hasdrubal Termini, Bishop of Syracuse.

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• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium, 1758 - 1769, ff. 301, mm. 300 X 210, cardbound. Title on cover: Registrum Ordinationum Ill(mi) et Rev(mi) D(ni) Episcopi Fratris Don Bartholmaei Rull ab anno 1758 usque ad annum 1769.

HMML Project No. Malta 4330

• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium, 1875 - 1884, ff. 37, mm. 315 X 200, cardbound. Catalogus Ordinatorum : Melitensem Ecclsiam regente Excell. et Rmo. Dno. Carmelo Comite Scicluna, Archiepiscopo Rhodi, Episcopo Melitae.

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• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium, 1818 - 1857, ff. 132, mm. 315 X 215, cardbound. Title on fly-leaf: Ordinationes Sant. Title of the manuscript is misleading. It contains a record of the ordinations made during the episcopates of Bishops Ferdinando Mattei, Francesco Saverio Caruana, and Publius dei Conti Sant who died in 1857.

HMML Project No. Malta 4332  

• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium 1780 - 1806, ff. 193, mm. 305 X 210, cardbound. Title on fly-leaf: Registrum Ordinationum Ill(mi) et Rev(mi) Domini Fratris Vincentii Labini episcopi Melivetanae ac mense Septembris 1780. Contains all the ordinations made by Bishop Labini. A lacuna from 1 April 1798 to 20 September 1800 coincides roughly with the period of occupation by the French Revolutionary army (10 June 1798 to 7 September 1800).

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• A.A.M. Registrum Ordinandorum ac Privilegiorum Clericalium, 1770 - 1781, 3 fascicles of ff. 53, 54, 52; mm. 300 X 200, unbound. Title on fly-leaf: Registrum Ordinationum Ill(mi) et R(mi) Fratris Don Joannis Carmini Pellerano Episcopi Regii Melivetanae Diocesis ab anno 1770 ad annum 1775 et registratio literarum patentium usque ad annum 1781. Consists of 3 separate fascicles numbered 1, 2, and 4. Fascicle 3 is missing.

HMML Project No. Malta 4334