COCQUELINES, CHARLES

COCQUELINES, Charles. - Tireless editor of the Roman Bullarium, lived in the 18th century, d. 1758.
In 1739 he began in Rome the publication of a Bullarum, privilegiorum ac diplomatum Romanorum pontificum amplissima collectio, to which he added the lives of all the popes, notes and useful indices (10 vols. in-fol.) with many additions

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Cocollla - Monks with a c. in an episode from the life of St. Benedict, fresco by Sodoma in the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore.

compared to the previous collection by Cherubini and others. Following this collection he published the Bullarium Romanum, seu novissima et accuratissima bibliotheca apostolicarum constitutionum ex autographis quae in secretiori Vaticano alitsque Sedis Apostolicae scrinis observantur. The last volume of this second collection appeared in 1762: in all 28 vols. in-fol. reaching to the end of the pontificate of Benedict XIV (1758); they were completed by another hand (Rome 1739-62).

Bibl.: T. Ortolan, in DThC, III (1908), cols. 266-67; Hurter, IV (1910), col. 1610. Benedetto Gioia