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Collection: "Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800
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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,…
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…
33560
In Bridwell Library's copy of the 1785 Venetian edition of St. Alfonso María de Ligorio's work, the passage condemned by the Mexican Inquisition in 1804 has been thoroughly deleted in ink. As the broadside explained, the passage questions 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.
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…
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…
BRB0030
This edict promulgated by the Mexican Inquisition warned the Catholic faithful against several prevailing offenses to Christian beliefs, with sections devoted to the Jewish Law of Moses, Islamic teachings, Lutheranism, followers of the mystical sect…
BRB0148
Lindley Murray's English Reader was an immensely successful textbook in nineteenth-century grammar schools in the United States. In this copy of the author's Sequel to the English Reader, first published in 1801, an entire reading by the Scottish…
AEV5660
In this English translation of the Baron of Holbach's atheistic manifesto, Bon Sens, ou idées naturelles opposées aux idées surnaturelles, first published at Amsterdam in 1772, the lengthy footnote on page 137 explaining how priests were "enemies of…
AFH8981
Although the Spanish Inquisition called for strict censorship of texts containing "new ideas" about the traditional Christian sacraments, none of the Spanish indexes prohibited the specific passages that were deleted (with ink and removal of pages)…
BRA0945
Several chapters in the Legenda aurea (the "Golden Legend") expanded upon biblical narratives in ways that were unacceptable to the Catholic Church. In this Madrid edition, a censor has deleted the apocryphal tale of the two midwives, found nowhere…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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").
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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