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Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including a Comedia by Francisco Lanine Sagredo, "La nueva maravilla de la gracia Iuana de Iesus Maria." A 1662 edition of Blaeu's Atlas is also to be expurgated, as one folio includes an illustration of Christ crucified beneath a female image depicting "la Secta de Mahoma." Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning various books and writings. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning various books and writings from La Haya and Barcelona. Space for date left blank.

Public notice of Edict of faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies and crimes, including Judaism, Islam, sodomy, etc. Space for date left blank.

Edict clarifying policies on absolution by non-inquisition clergy in Jubilee years. Contains signature.

Edict banning or expurgating forty-seven books and writings by a variety of authors, including Lope de Vega and Nicolás de Jesús Belando.

Edict listing twenty-one works to be banned, ten to be expurgated. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict removing a ban on Henry Noris' "Historia Pelagiana," which was included in the 1747 Spanish Index despite papal opposition. Texts relating to the debate over Noris' work and its suppression are now banned.

Clement XIII's condemnation of Diderot and Alembert's "Encyclopedie," endorsed by Miguel Quintano Bonifaz.

Edict banning twelve works, including "Lettres Chinoises," and expurgating three others.

Edict banning ten books and expurgating two, including works by Rousseau and Voltaire.

Edict banning thirteen works and expurgating one more. Space for date and place left blank.

Edict banning various writings.

Edict banning or expurgating nineteen books and writings, mostly French.

Edict banning eight books and writings.

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 condemning eight "Molinist" propositions, and requiring the expurgation of five related propositions (given in Latin). A number of books are ordered banned or expurgated in consequence. Space for date left blank.

Termination of an agreement with convicted judaizers, who had been allowed to retain their property so long as this was invested in Brasilian commerce. Such properties are now to be seized by royal authorities, including inquisitors.

Formerly bound as part of a larger collection, foliated 318-322.

Edict listing guidelines about banning or expurgating writings.

Royal edict condemning the entrance of Jews into Spanish dominion.

Royal proclamation on the restoration of the inquisition.

Royal notice to the viceroy and other officials of Aragon concerning agreements reached with the Inquisitions of Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia, etc. on jurisdiction and limits on privileges for inquisitorial officers following the 1564 cortes of Monzón and a report by Francisco de Soto Salazar. The full text of the resulting "capitulos y decretos" determined by Inquisitor General Diego de Spinosa are included.

Contains royal official's signature.

Alphabetical list of over one hundred censored titles by authors including Ovid, Rousseau, "Bolter" [sic for Voltaire], diderot, Llorente, Martínez Marina, Mendizabal, etc.

Re-edition of 1640 rules governing expurgation of books, in anticipation of the new 1707 Index Expurgatorio. Space for date left blank at end.

Re-edition of 1640 rules governing expurgation of books, in anticipation of the new 1707 Index Expurgatorio. Space for date left blank at end.

Spanish promulgation of Pope Clement XI's constitution "Vineam Domini Sabaoth," denouncing a series of Jansenist assertions and banning texts in which these appear.

Edict publicizing Clement XI's ban on two French translations from the French Testament. Space for date left blank.

Edict banning works by Juan Fernando de Frías y Toledo. Space for date left blank.