COCQUELINES, CHARLES. – Tireless editor of the Roman Bullary, who lived in the 18th century and died in 1758.
In 1739, in Rome, he began publishing a Bullarum, privilegiorum ac diplomatum Romanorum pontificum amplissima collectio, cui accessere pontificum omnium vitae, notae et indices opportuni (10 vols. in-fol.), with many additions
compared with the earlier collection of Cherubini and others. Following this collection, he published the Bullarium Romanum, seu novissima et accuratissima bibliotheca apostolicarum constitutionum ex autographis quae in secretori Vaticano aliisque Sedis Apostolicae scrimis asservantur. The final volume of this second collection appeared in 1762: altogether 28 vols. in-fol., extending to the end of the pontificate of Benedict XIV (1758); they were completed by another hand (Rome 1739–62).