[726] “Wishing also to impose a restraint ... upon printers ... who print without licence of ecclesiastical superiors, the said books of Sacred Scripture, and the annotations and expositions upon them of all persons indifferently ... (this Synod) ordains and decrees, that, henceforth, the Sacred Scripture, and especially the aforesaid old and Vulgate edition, be printed in the most correct manner possible; and that it shall not be lawful for anyone to print, or cause to be printed, any books whatever on sacred matters, without the name of the author; nor to sell them in future or even to keep them by them, unless they shall have been first examined and approved by the ordinary; under pain of anathema and fine imposed in a canon of the last Lateran Council” (Sess. iv.)
[727] The original Index of Pope Paul IV. contained a list of no less than sixty-one printers, and prohibited the reading of any book printed by them. He afterwards withdrew this clause. But his Index gives a long catalogue of authors all of whose writings are prohibited. It is, with one distinguished exception, a mere list of names; but it contains: “Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus cum universis commentariis, annotationibus, scholiis, dialogis, epistolis, censuris, versionibus, libris et scriptis suis, etiam si nil penitus contra religionem vel de religione contineant.”
[728] Session xviii.—Decree anent the choice of books; Session xxv.—Anent the Index of books, the Catechism, Breviary, and Missal.
[729] Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction, i. 301.
Transcriber’s Notes:
| Page | Originally | Changed to |
|---|---|---|
| vii | Lemonier | Lemonnier |
| xii | Freibourg | Freiburg |
| 43 | Ausburger | Augsburger |
| 49 | Landammann | Landamann |
| 72 | Vallingin | Villingen |
| 85 | Antoina | Antonia |
| 116 n. | gestes marveilleux | Gestes merveilleux |
| 148 | auto-da fés | auto-da-fés |
| 162 | cas communs | cas communes |
| 181 | d’Hopital | de l’Hôpital |
| 234 n. | Geschiedeniss der Doopgezinden | Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden |
| 237 | Daventer | Deventer |
| 238 | Daventer | Deventer |
| 254 n. | Philip | Philippe |
| 254 | St. Omer’s | St. Omer |
| 261 | [inserted second footnote anchor] | |
| 293 | Prag | Prague |
| 312 | hopless | hopeless |
| 358 | Büchlin | Büchlein |
| 438 | Lichtenstein | Liechtenstein |
| 445 n. | St. Galler | St. Gallen |
| 447 | Ostreich-Ungern | Österreich-Ungarn |
| 462 | striken | stricken |
| 484 n. | Marrenbrecher | Maurenbrecher |
| 564 | Taschensbuch | Taschenbuch |
| 576 n. | Denzigner | Denzinger |
| 581 | Crescenzio | Crescentio |
| 614 | Ausberger | Augsburger |
| 614 | Bekantones | Bekentones |
| 617 | Chatelet | Châtelet |
| 618 n. | Dilemburg | Dillenburg |
| 619 | Eidgenots | Eidguenots |
| 620 | Vallingen | Villingen |
| 624 | Meersberg | Meersburg |
| 625 | l’Ame | l’âme |
| 626 | Gräbunden | Graubünden |
| 628 | Heidelburg | Heidelberg |
| 629 | Giorlamo | Girolamo |
| 640 | Meyer, Johann | Maier, Johann (and moved respecting Index alphabetical order) |
| 631 | Willebrock | Willebroek |