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“Heresy and Error”: The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800 An Exhibition at Bridwell Library, September 20 – December 17, 2010 | |||||
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This
Index librorum expurgatorum, a
reprint of the first Spanish edition of 1584, was
published by Protestants at the French university
town of Saumur in an effort to expose the methods of
the Catholic censors. It includes a preface by the
Protestant scholar Philippe de Mornay Du Plessis
(1549–1623), who had intercepted a copy of the
Spanish Index
intended for a Catholic censor. One of its longest
entries lists numerous expurgations to be made in the glosses
that accompany the Decretales of Gregory IX,
a collection of papal decrees printed at Lyon in
1553.
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