Hesburgh Libraries

Undated blank certificate authorizing a "Revisor de las librerias" to censor books in accordance with the newly published 1707 Index Expurgatorio.

Incomplete memorandum on tax exemptions for inquisition officers.

Publication of a 1792 notice authorizing consumption of meat during Lent, in accordance with a papal indult of 1791. Alms are to be collected for the poor in exchange for this privilege; the rate of payment is divided into four classes. Most Indians, Blacks, Meztizos, day laborers and mendicant friars, etc., are allowed to give prayers in lieu of monetary payment. Contains wax seal and notarial marks.

Includes prefatory material, sermon, table of contents, and three large fold-out copper plates by Francesco Ciché, depicting public Autos de Fe. Lacks Certificate-folio and folios 41-42, as well as one copper-plate.

Notice of royal policy on inquisitorial jurisdiction.

Consists of five notes: 1. About omissions of books and papers prohibited by public edicts; 2. About alterations against prohibited edicts; 3. About some apparently repairable expressions; 4. About books, and authors who call themselves Jansenistas; and 5. About mistakes in the list of AA. Jansenistas, with relation to the Catalog.

Collection of privileges relating to the Santa Hermandad confraternity. Ornate hand-made binding, with an 1854 photo of the Hermandad's prison attached on the inside front cover.

Collection of privileges relating to the Santa Hermandad confraternity. Ornate binding with crest.

Edict forbidding inquisitorial officials from publically disparaging the lineage (limpieza) of others, due to the resentment this generates toward the inquisition.

Decree on fasting practices, banning a 1745 text on this subject by Francisco Martín Rangel.

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

Letter from the pope to Inquisitor General Andrés Pacheco, encouraging diplomatic relations with England through the Prince of Wales (Charles I, r. 1625-1649), in hopes that his marriage to a Catholic might lead to a rapprochement with Rome.

Translation of papal indulgences issued to familiars and officials in 1611 by Paul V. Scipio Cobellutius's name is printed at the end of the document.

Translation of the bull "Si de protegendis," originally issued 1569, asserting papal protection of inquisitorial witnesses and recognition of rights pertaining to familiars and officials.

Translation of the bull "Si de protegendis," originally issued 1569, asserting papal protection of inquisitorial witnesses and recognition of rights pertaining to familiars and officials; it is unclear when or where this copy was printed.

Translation of the papl bull "Si de protegendis," asserting papal protection of inquisitorial witnesses and recognition of rights pertaining to familiars and officials. Issued in Mexico on the orders of Bartholome de Ledesma, with blank spaces for names of local authorities; rare example of early Mexican printing.

Ornate gothic-style indulgence certificate, issued with papal authority by Inquisitor General de Sotomayor and filled in for a petitioner.

Collection of privileges relating to the Sant Hermandad confraternity. Contains illustration at start, and signature and wax seal at end.

Collection of privileges relating to the Santa Hermandad confraternity. Four separate, unpaginated royal privileges dated 1728 follow the initial 1727 text. Each document contains signatures at end.

Edict banning various books. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Edict ordering expurgation of a Marian devotional work.

Edict listing thirty-three works to be banned, three to be expurgated.

Edict banning twenty-four books and writings, nine of which are forbidden even to those with licenses, and expurgating several others. Space for date and place left blank.

Edict banning two volumes of a 1709 entitled, "Annales Dominicanos" by Joseph de Saravia y Lezana. Spaces for date and place left blank.

Edict banning a tract entitled, "Atajo Espiritual para llegar el alma segura, y en breve, a la intima union con Dios," for Molinist and Alumbrist tendencies. Spaces for date and place left blank.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings. Spaces for date and place left blank.

Edict banning or expurgating "in totum" various books and writings. Spaces for date and place left blank.

Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including "Relacion Apologique, & Historique de la Societe de Francs Massons," and "Theatro Critico" by P. Feijoo. Spaces for date and place left blank.