Raccolta

The name "Raccolta" is an abbreviation of the full Italian title of the earliest editions: Raccolta di orazioni e pie opere per le quali sono state concesse dai Sommi Pontefici le Sante Indulgenze ("Collection of Prayers and Pious Works for Which Holy Indulgences Have Been Conceded by the Supreme Pontiffs").

[4] The subsequent 1929 edition was titled: Collectio precum piorumque operum quibus romani pontifices in favorem omnium christifidelium aut quorumdam coetuum personarum indulgentias adnexuerunt ab anno 1899 ad 1928 ("Collection of Prayers and Pious Works to Which the Roman Pontiffs, for the Sake of All the Christian Faithful or Certain Groups of Persons, Have Added Indulgences, from the Year 1899 to 1928").

[5] The 1938 edition went by the similar title: Preces et pia opera in favorem omnium christifidelium vel quorumdam coetuum personarum indulgentiis ditata et opportune recognita ("Prayers and Pious Works, for the Sake of All the Christian Faithful or Certain Groups of Persons, Enriched with Indulgences and Opportunely Recognized");[6] the 1950 and 1952 editions relegated this latter name to the subtitle, bearing Enchiridion Indulgentiarum ("Handbook of Indulgences") as their main title.

[7] Several additional prayers received official indulgences by the popes between 1951 and 1967, but none of these were ever published in a new, collected edition since the format and schema of the Enchiridion underwent significant changes in 1968.

On the other hand, it includes new general grants of partial indulgences that apply to a wide range of prayerful actions, and it indicates that the prayers that it does list as deserving veneration on account of divine inspiration or antiquity or as being in widespread use are only examples[11] of those to which the first of these general grants applies: "Raising the mind to God with humble trust while performing one's duties and bearing life's difficulties, and adding, at least mentally, some pious invocation".