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BRA0050
Throughout the history of Christianity, various ecclesiastical authorities have argued that their jurisdiction over the censorship of books has a scriptural basis. To that end, the Index librorum prohibitorum published by the Catholic Church in 1758…
ACY3341
A direct outcome of the Council of Trent, the Index librorum prohibitorum ("Index of Prohibited Books") provided a list of authors and works that were banned by the Catholic Church. The first Tridentine Index prohibited the complete writings of 610…
AET7905
The Council of Trent broke prohibited books into three classes: books by heretical authors, individual prohibited books, and anonymous protected books. They were listed in these three categories until 1664 when books were listed in a single…
BRA0270
In later editions of the Index librorum prohibitorum, the three classes were interspersed in one alphabetical sequence, so that heretical authors, prohibited titles, and anonymous works could be more easily found in one sequence. This book has an…
BRB0169/A
This 1570 edition of the Index librorum prohibitorum was augmented for King Phillip II's Netherlandish subjects with the king's edict proclaiming that the authority to censor books emanates from the Crown and that its enforcement will be overseen by…
AFH7395
In the exhibited Spanish Index, the elaborate title-page engraving designed by Juan de Herrera shows St. Peter and St. Paul within an architectural framework with personifications of Christian learning and faith. Compiled for Cardinal Antonio Zapata,…
BRB0391
Under the entry "Hieronymi Savonarolae Ferrariensis sermones," this Index of 1711 lists Savonarola's fifteen prohibited sermons and his book, Dialogo de la verità prophetica.
AFW8268
This Index librorum expurgatorum, a reprint of the first Spanish edition of 1584, was published by Protestants at the French university town of Saumur in an effort to expose the methods of the Catholic censors. It includes a preface by the Protestant…
AFW8269
This combined edition of the indexes of prohibited and expurgated books is a reprint of Cardinal Antonio de Sotomayor's highly restrictive 1640 edition. It lists numerous prohibited passages in the notes in the 1584 Salamanca edition of the Biblia…
BRB0420
This notice prohibits 16 works and orders the expurgation of 7 others. The prohibited works include several prayers that offered apocryphal indulgences and other benefits. Bearing the paper and wax seal of the Inquisition, the order was endorsed with…
BRB0433
This decree prohibits ten heretical works, including the entire literary output of the French philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778), and orders the expurgation of three other titles. The paper and wax seal of the Mexican Inquisition is affixed to the…
BRB0395
In this proclamation, the Mexican Inquisition lists twenty-one titles that may not be read without license to do so, forty books that are prohibited, and thirteen more texts that require expurgation.
BRB0396
This notification prohibits fifty-five books and mandates the expurgation of six others. The prohibited titles range from No. 9, the obscene French novel Voyage dans le Boudoir de Paulina, to No. 14, Edward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline…
BRB0032
This broadside prohibits several politically seditious works as well as the novel Lettres à Eugenie, here listed erroneously under the authorship of the French scholar Nicolás Freret, but actually the work of the renowned atheist Paul Henri Thiry,…
AFW8268
The Spanish Inquisition's Index of Expurgations, first issued in 1584. It informs censors which passages are erroneous or obsolete in past books and need to be deleted.
ACY3341
A direct outcome of the Council of Trent, the Index librorum prohibitorum ("Index of Prohibited Books") provided a list of authors and works that were banned by the Catholic Church.
AET7905/B
The Council of Trent broke prohibited books into three classes: books by heretical authors, individual prohibited books, and anonymous protected books. They were listed in these three categories until 1664 when books were listed in a single…
BRA0050
The official instrument of Roman Catholic Church censorship beginning in the sixteenth century.
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