Here are entered works on documents having legal relevance in general. Works on documents written in order to give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, are entered under the heading Legal instruments.
Here are entered general collections of documents and other papal pronouncements since the fifteenth century. Earlier collections are entered under Bulls, Papal. Collections limited to a specific topic are entered under the topic with subdivision Papal documents, e.g. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Papal documents.Works on the documents of a particular Pope are entered under Catholic Church--Doctrines or [subject]--Papal documents, if limited as to subject matter.
