A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[1327] MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 218^b, p. 214.

[1328] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 940, fol. 18.

[1329] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 32, fol. 666.

In the Indexes, books were divided into three classes. The first consisted of condemned authors, all of whose works were prohibited; the second of books by known authors, requiring expurgation; the third, of unknown authors, either prohibited or requiring expurgation.

This was the theory, but negligently observed in practice.

[1330] Ibidem, fol. 668.

[1331] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 21, fol. 303.

[1332] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 374; Leg. 1, n. 4, fol. 234.—See Appendix for a commission of Revisor de Libros.

[1333] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 1, n. 4, fol. 251.

[1334] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 890; Lib. 559.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 47.