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Collection: "Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800
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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…
BRB0215
The Onus ecclesie was listed in the Tridentine Index in Class III among the anonymous works though its author is now known to be Berthold Pürstinger. Written in 1519, the work was a daring call for internal reform within the Catholic Church. In the…
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,…
06721
King Ferdinand V (1452–1516) invited the Bishop of Coria to write the Luzero de la vida cristiana ("Morning Star of the Christian Life") in order to "expel the darkness of ignorance" from Spain, particularly among Jews and Muslims who had endured…
AFR8866
As the Inquisition could pursue Protestant agitators outside of Spain, the Swiss publisher of this Spanish New Testament concealed his identity by using the pseudonym "Juan Philadelpho" and claiming Venice as the place of publication. The small size…
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.
30858
Eight of the twenty-six sermons on Exodus in this edition (numbered 1-3, 6, 10, 12, 20, and 23) are marked "questa e prohibita" ("this is prohibited").
30860
In Bridwell Library's copy of Savonarola's sermons on the Books of Ruth and Micah, Sermon 7 on the third chapter of Ruth was censored by the removal of twelve leaves (folios 82-93). Only the beginning and the very end of the sermon remain.
AEY8119
The more complete removal of the same prohibited sermon on Ruth in this earlier edition had drastic consequences for the physical book as a whole. When the censor cut out all seven leaves of Sermon 7, he also removed the ending of Sermon 6 and the…
30854
In this copy of Savonarola's sermons on the Book of Ezechiel, the three prohibited sermons in this collection were left undisturbed but a later note states that Sermons 21, 32, and 40 were cited in the Index librorum prohibitorum. The woodcut on the…
30891
A censor tore ten leaves from this collection of Savonarola's sermons, removing the prohibited third sermon entitled "Ecce gladius Domini" ("Behold the Sword of God"), which had alarmed church officials with its apocalyptic warnings. Several other…
30847
In this collection of forty-seven sermons on the Book of Job, a censor marked the beginning of Sermon 14 as "proibita" ("prohibited") in brown ink, and the bottom right corner of the first leaf of the sermon was torn away. It was later repaired, with…
30855
The title page of this edition of Savonarola's Lenten sermons on the prophecies of Amos bears a woodcut depicting the author's public execution. While the assembled men and women look to his empty pulpit, the martyr, engulfed in flames, holds aloft a…
BRB0444
In this later edition of Savonarola's Lenten sermons on Amos, the eleven leaves containing the prohibited Sermon 12 were excised by a censor.
30878
This copy of his De simplicitate vitae christiane, printed in Spain, bears a seventeenth-century inscription on its title page warning that the "Auctor iste damnatus" ("the author is damned"). However, citing the Historia pontifical y cathólica by…
30874
This sermon by Savonarola, never prohibited by the Index, was inscribed by an early owner "Si puo leggere senza scrupolo" ("You may read this without scruple").
BRB0027
The exhibited pages of this 1586 Lyon edition of the Index librorum expurgatorum lists corrections and deletions to be applied to a ten-volume annotated 1555 edition of St. Augustine's works printed in Paris by Charlotte Guillard. Bridwell Library's…
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…
BRA2759
Erroneous passages in this collection of medieval Canon Law compiled for Pope Boniface VIII were expurgated by gluing blank paper slips over the offending glosses. A Latin inscription added at the beginning of the book c. 1570 states that the text…
07017
The text of the Psalms, printed in large letters, is surrounded with commentary by David ben Joseph Ḳimḥi (c. 1160–c. 1235) in smaller types. A Christian censor used ink and small sheets of paper to omit words from commentary and entire passages.
AFW8190
Rabbi Abravenel's commentary on the Hebrew Haggadah was written in Italy. Venetian law did not permit Jews to own or operate printing presses so this second edition was printed by a Christian printer. The final leaf, dated 1617, has the signatures of…
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…
AEX3672
In Bridwell Library’s copy of the 1584 Biblia Sacra compiled by Franciscus Vatablus, note 20 on Psalm 16 was expurgated after the words “deseres animam meam,” and note 22 was deleted entirely. Although these expurgations match those dictated by…
31600
The title page of this expanded edition of Pedro Mexía's history of the Roman and Christian emperors bears an ink inscription in Spanish stating that the book has been "corregido segun el expurgatorio de 1747" ("corrected according to the 1747…
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