It seems certain that a collection of portraits of the Cardinals was published at Rome in 1646 and a copy cut up for this purpose; ‘Effigies, nomina, et cognomina S.D.N.D. Clementis Papae X. et RR. DD. S.R.E. Cardinalium nunc viventium...’ was published in 1671, and a similar collection for the conclave which elected Innocent XI, in 1677.
This manuscript is possibly a copy of an intended earlier and more elaborate edition of “La Giusta Statera de` porporati dove s`intende la vita, nascità, adherenza, possibilità, ricchezze, offitii, le dignità, le Cariche di ciascun cardinale Hoggi vivente and ivi s`intenderà anco le loro virtù meriti e demeriti, con l`aggionta delli penultimi sei cardinali promossi da Innocenzo X l`anno 1648”, which was published anonymously without portraits at Geneva in 1650. The dedicatory epistle, which is signed N N, and the concluding address, which is signed H H, are largely the same as those in the manuscript, and most of the articles are common to both. English translations of the book were published by H C[ogan] in 1653 and in 1660.