ABSTRACT
Any student of the history of the papal chapel is familiar with the mandati camerali, the documents, in the Archivio di Stato di Roma, which transmit the names of the chapel members. The archives of the Cappella Sistina, however, in the Cappella Sistina collection of manuscripts in the Vatican Library, contain two long-forgotten personnel lists of the chapel: one for the month of December 1526, the other undated. The lists in C.S. 681 would appear to have originated in the papal chapel itself. In fact, they are signed by many of the chapel members with the words “recepi ut supra, ” or an indication that they were picking up money for someone else. Folio 75 of C.S. 681 is dated “de mense deceb 1526” and provides an important record of the members of the chapel of Clement VII before the sack of Rome.
