Hesburgh Libraries

Edict banning a book entitled "L'An dux mille quatre-cent quarante. Réve s'il en fut jamais" (London 1776); no copies may be held in any library, except for the Biblioteca Real. Contains signature.

Translation of a 1571 collection of bulls and indulgences granted to crusaders and familiars of the inquisition by popes from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, confirmed by Pius V (1570). Text gives incipits and dates of the original documents, with minimal summary. Last folio contains Spanish summary of Pius V's 1569, "Institución de la Cofradía de San Pedro Martyr, de Oficiales, y Ministros del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion."

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

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

Edict recalling papal approval of the Jesuit Order, and condemning certain anti-Jesuit propositions as heretical. Contains signatures and wax seal.

Extended text for Edict of faith, requiring denunciation of various heresies. Space for place and date left blank.

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

Edict listing thirty-two works to be banned, seven to be expurgated.

Edict banning various writings. Contains signature; wax seal missing.

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.

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.

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

Edict banning various satirical writings, some of which have been found in the Americas, opposing the expulsion of the Jesuits.

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.