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Edict banning a book entitled, "Bida de Nuestra Señora Maria Santissima" by Juan Ferreras, printed by Manuel Román.

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Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings.

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Edict banning or expurgating "in totum" various books and writings.

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Edict banning Fr. Nicolás de Jesús Belando's "Historia Civil de Espana."

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Edict ordering expurgation of a Marian devotional work.

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Edict banning fourteen books and writings, expurgating four, and removing restrictions from two other works.

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Edict banning twenty-one books and writings and expurgating two others. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Edict banning or expurgating various undated writings; space for date left blank.

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Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings. Folder 2 (INQ-383) contains signatures.

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Edict banning or expurgating various books and writings, including a 1718 "Historia del reynado del Señor Luis XIV, Rey de Francia." Spaces for date and place left blank.

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Edict noting the need for a new Index Expurgatorio to replace that of 1640 and for more Revisores to enforce it. Booksellers are reminded of the 1640 rules and informed that a new Index will soon be released. A list of Revisores empowered to search bookstores is appended at the end of the document.

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Certification of legitimacy and blood purity (limpieza) for Hernando Portocarrero Benito and Geronima de Mendoza, his wife. Genealogical and archival research goes back to 1570s. Contains signature and wax seal.

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Royal edict condemning the entrance of Jews into Spanish dominion.

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

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

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

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

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

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Incomplete memorandum on tax exemptions for inquisition officers.

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Notice of royal policy on inquisitorial jurisdiction.

Scope and Contents Documents relating to Inquisition and law in the New world, ranging from 1717-1797; some apparently copied in the Secretaría de la Cámara de Gobierno, Mexico, for the benefit of an archbishop by Licenciado antonio Dies de Medina, Secretary. 1. Thirty-four articles on Inquisition procedure (Madrid 1747). 2. Royal order to respect the Inquisition (1763). 3. Royal brief for Viceroys (Aranjuez 1744). 4. Royal brief on legal procedure (Aranjuez 1740). 5. Royal brief (Aranjuez 1763). 6. Royal...

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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.

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

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Notice from inquisitor general Perez de Prado y Cuesta, confirming Pedro Martinez de Soria's tenure as Alguacil de la Santa Cruzada (a royal donation dating back to the 1630s). Certified the following year at la Gineta. Text partially cut off at bottom. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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

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

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

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Lengthy essay calling for an inquisitorial trial of disabled soldier Juan Rodríguez Bejarano, for bigamy. Several documents compiled in a single hand as a defense of inquisitorial jurisdiction in such matters. Includes Latin and Italian citations of earlier cases, laws, and scriptures.

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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.

Scope and Contents Collection of documents relating to the abolition of the inquisition, apparently dating to 1813 and purchased by a priest of Arganda named José Garcia Armesto. Included are five printed proclamations (some with signatures) from the regency Cortes on reform of religious life in Spain, including abolition of the inquisition while retaining punishments for heresy. Manuscript copies of instructions follow, with various signatures, explaining how measures are to be implemented in local...