of a document would certainly not have been betrayed by leaving a broad strip behind.
The paging is in the greatest confusion. On the title page, in the right hand corner, are the figures 949, and under them 336. The historical introduction, by an unknown hand, prefixed to the papers, is numbered 337–340. The first document bears the double paging 950341, the upper number being struck through. On folio 951342 a third paging begins with 1, on the right hand lower edge. The triple numbering goes on regularly to 3509599. After 38399841 the uppermost and oldest paging is discontinued. Folios 384-386, blank pages of the Acts of the first trial, only bear the double paging, probably because, being blank, they were not paged until the papers of both trials were put together.
The double paging may be thus explained. The old numbering comprises all the documents belonging to 1616; and as it is to be seen on the title page, as well as the words: "Ex archivo S. Offij," and Vol. 1181, it is clear that these documents were originally comprised in a volume of the Archives of the Holy Office numbered 1181. The Acts of the second trial, 1632–33, must have belonged to another volume, as appears from the paging, as the first document bears the number 387, but the number of the volume is not traceable. When the Acts of 1616 and 1632–33 were bound together, in order to form a continuous paging, the old numbers of the first trial were struck through, and the paging continued backwards, reckoning from the first folio of the second trial.
The Introduction helps to determine the time when the two parts were united. It only extends to the mention of Galileo's defence; it is clear, therefore, that it was written after 10th May (the date of the defence), and before
