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NOTE1850

BRASICHELLEN AND SERPILIUS—EXPURGATORY INDEX

By J. SANSOM. (8. Park Place, Oxford)

I have a note, and should be glad to put a query, on the subject of a small octavo volume, of which the title is, "Indicis Librorum Expurgandorum, in studiosorum gratiam confecti, tomus primus; in quo quinquaginta auctorum libri præ cæteris desiderati emendantur. Per Fr. Io. Mariam Brasichellensem, sacri Palatii Apostolici Magistrum, in unum corpus redactus, et publicæ commoditati editus. Superiorum permissu, Romæ, 1607." Speaking of this index, Mendham says:— "We now advance to perhaps the most extraordinary and scarcest of all this class of publications. It is the first, and last, and incomp…

Topics: Expurgatory Index, Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Historical Bibliography

Locations: Rome, Bergomi, Antwerp, Ratisbon, Altorf, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cadiz