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


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

CENSORSHIP IN MEXICO


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. [Tribunal of the Inquisition in Mexico]. Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la heretica pravedad, y apostasia, &c. A todos, y qualesquier personas de qualquier estado, grado, y condicion... Sabed, que à nuestra noticia ha llegado haverse escrito, impresso, y divulgado varios libros, tratados, y papeles, los quales mandamos prohibir, ô expurgar respectivamente, como aqui se expressa: i son los siguientes. [Mexico: s.n., 1763].

This decree prohibits ten heretical works, including the entire literary output of the French philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778), and orders the expurgation of three other titles. The paper and wax seal of the Mexican Inquisition is affixed to the lower left corner.


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