“Heresy and Error”:
The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800


An Exhibition at Bridwell Library, September 20 – December 17, 2010

THE INDEX OF EXPURGATIONS


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. Boniface VIII (b. 1235, Pope 1294–1303). Liber sextus decretalium. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1517. [Bound with:] Clement V (b. 1264, Pope 1305–1314). Constitutiones. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1517. [Bound with:] John XXII (b. 1249, Pope 1316–1334). Extravagantes Johanis xxii. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1517. [Bound with:] Extravagantes communes. Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1517. 

Erroneous passages in this collection of medieval canon law compiled for Pope Boniface VIII were expurgated by gluing blank paper slips over the offending glosses. A Latin inscription added at the beginning of the book c. 1570 states that the text was diligently expurgated according to an exemplar provided by Father Manriquez, Master of the Sacred Palace. Tomás Manriquez (d. 1573), Spanish Dominican priest, was chief advisor of Pope Pius V and overseer of the Tridentine Index from 1565 until his death.

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