Hesburgh Libraries

Edict banning satirical writings or images related to the expulsion of the Jesuits which had recently emerged in Spain and the Americas. Contains signature and wax seal.

Edict banning seventeen books and writings, nine of which are forbidden even to those with licenses, expurgating one other and making corrections. Contains signature.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including a 1662 edition of Blaeu's Atlas to be expurgated as one folio includes an illustration of Christ crucified beneath a female image depicting "la Secta de Mahoma."

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings. Contains signature and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including a 1643 bilingual Venetian edition of the "Historia, ó brevissima relacion de la distribucion [sic] de la india Occidental" by Bartholomé Dalle Case, ó Causaus.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including Erasmus' "L'Elogie de la folie."

Edict listing twelve works to be banned, one to be expurgated.

Edict listing twelve works to be banned, one to be expurgated.

Edict baninng improper use of devotional images, for example on tobacco packages. Contains signature and wax seal.

Edict denouncing clergy who reject the oath of fidelity to King Philip V as required by Pope Clement XI, and requiring parishioners to denounce such clergy to the inquisition. Spaces for date left blank.

Collection of four separate but related documents with texts for promulgation of an Edict of faith (Cádiz 1776) and pronouncement of anathema (both printed), and different types of abjuration and absolution formulas in cases of heresy (manuscript). Contains signatures and wax seals.

Decree expurgating various books and writings. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict ordering expurgation of a 1669 "Vida de Jesu Christo" by Fr. Fernando de Valverde of Lima (Peru). Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and papers. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Ban on various Romances. Contains signatures; wax seal is missing.

Ban on Miguel de Zetina's "Christiana, y Catholica Politica de Dios." Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books relating to Miguel de Molinos, a prisoner of the Roman Inquisition.

Decree banning or expurgating various books and writings. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Decree banning or expurgating various books and writings. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books, including "Mercure historique politique" and the Jesuit Ignacio Camargo's "Discurso Theologico sobre los Theatros, y Comedias de este siglo, &c." Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books, including "Les Estaos è Impires, Royaume & Principautez du Mondi" (sic). Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning a tract entitled "Carta de un Cortesano, para un Caballero Titulo de Sevilla." Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Ban on several books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Ban on a false 1667 edition of the Index librorum prohibitorum, and a Hebrew text printed at Venice. Contains signatures and wax seal.