Hereticos. At videte, modo quosnam Papa cum suis Episcopis, et Legatis habeat pro hereticis et pro hæresiarchis. Omnes nos prorsus qui puritatatem sanctæ doctrinæ Evangelicæ restitutam volumus. Itaque jam sumus ab illis condemnati, nihil aliud jam reliquum esset nisi ut in loco concilii et in faciem legerent nobis eam condemnationem, et sententiam atque mox in ignem mitterent.

Audite omnes gentes, audite omnes populi, Nam hic Joannes Della Casa Archiepiscopus, qui ausus est tot doctissimos viros condemnare, ille ille ipse est, qui libello a se edito, et Venetiis impresso apud Trojanum Navum Typrographum, celebravit laudes-I omit the three following lines, and proceed-Proh pudor. An num sunt hi egregii Archiepiscopi? His scilicet judicibus utetur Papa et Diabolus in suo Concilio.

Occasional and slight violations of the order of time are almost unavoidable in discussions like the present; we therefore retrograde a little to notice the origin of the condemning books in one of the most zealous and fruitful manufactories of them, Spain. Our best guide on this subject, as relates to Spain, in default of the works themselves, is the Histoire de l'Inquisition d'Espagne, par LLORENTE. In the 1st vol. and xiiith chap.

of that work he has given a detailed and able account of the prohibitions of books, or the Indexes, in Spain. At p. 462, and the following, he informs us, citing as his authority SANDOVAL'S History of CHARLES V., that that Emperor charged the University of Louvain to form a list of dangerous books, and that he obtained, in 1539, a bull of the Pope approving the measure. It was published in 1546; and having the original edition before me, I give the following as an account thereof.

MANDEMENT de l'imperiale Maieste donne et publie en l'an xlvi. Avecq Catalogue, Intitulation, ou declaration des livres reprouvéz, faicte par Messieurs les Docteurs en sacree Theologie de Luniversite de Louvain, a l'ordonnance et commandement de la susdicte Maieste Imperiale. Imprime a Louvain, par SERVAIS VAN SASSEN. Lan. M.D.xlvi. Cum Gratia et Previlegio. 8vo. fol. 39, unnumbered. The Mandement, after referring to ordonnances of the years 1540 and 1544, for the restraint of the press, complains of the continued publication of heretical books, and particularly of corrupt editions of the scriptures, and accordingly subjects booksellers to new restrictions, under the penalty of death—sur paine du dernier supplice-if they sell any books con

taining error, without the previous inspection and mark of appointed officers *. The Catalogue itself, which is compiled by the Dean and Faculty of the University of Louvain, exhibits, firstly, a copious list of bibles in different languages; and, secondly, an alphabetic one, in Latin and Dutch, of the works, principally of the German reformers. In a separate notice at the close is contained a list of authors and works condemned by the Imperial Mandement of 1540. A Flemish edition of the same work is mentioned in the Second Part of the Bibliotheca Selecta of M. CHARLES MICHiels, 1781, Anvers, under the head of Ample Collection concernant les Expurgations et Censures des Livres. I refer to the above work, and to this particular portion of it the more precisely, not only because I shall have future occasion for such references, but because many of the volumes, containing the Indexes, or relating to them, in

*They could only sell books printed by a printer admitted and sworn, &c. I have not particularly noticed circumstances of this kind; but I have before me two works, one entitled, Acta Concilii Tridentini, &c. Antverpiæ, 1546, with the notice of the printer, Excudebat Martinus Nutius, typographus juratus et a Cæs. M. admissus, Cum Privilegio Cæsareo.

The other is on the subject of the present work, Panegyrica Orationes Dua, Prior, de Vitandis et Repub. proscribendis Libris perniciosis, &c. Auctore H. CUYCKIO, &c. Lovanii, apud Jacobum Heybergium, Typog. Jurat. Anno M.D.XCV.

my possession, are, I have reason to believe, the identical volumes exhibited in that Catalogue.

In 1549* the Emperor wrote to the same University to publish another edition of this Catalogue, which, with additions and by authority of the supreme Senate of the Inquisition, appeared in 1550. PEIGNOT gives the title, which is in the Flemish language, and which in English is— THE CATALOGUES or Inventories of bad books prohibited, and of other good ones to be taught young scholars, according to the advice of the University of Louvain, with an edict or mandate of his imperial Majesty, Louvain, by SERVAIS VAN SASSEN, in 1550, 4to. This volume, as Peignot affirms, is infinitely rare and unknown †. In the same year the same Catalogue, as may reasonably be supposed, but whether before or after is uncertain, was published in Latin, with this title-CATALOGI Librorum reprobatorum, et prælegendorum ex judicio Academiæ Lovaniensis. Cum edicto Cæsarea Majestatis evulgati. Lovanii, ex officina Servatii Sasseni, Anno Domini M.D.L. Jussu, Gratia, et Privilegio, Cæsareæ Majestatis, 4to. It begins with an address to the reader from the Rector and University, adverting to the Catalogue of 1546,

See

*Certainly not 1546, as in the original.

+ Ubi supra, pp. 256, 7. In Biblioth. Bunav. is Ordenung, &c., 1550, 4. P. 496.

and stating that two letters had been directed to them by the Emperor, commanding them to form a fresh Catalogue, which should comprehend the noxious books issued since the publication of the last; which command they had now put in execution. They profess to insert, not only decidedly heretical books, but those likewise which insinuate the same poison, closing the list of condemned assertions with this-solam fidem sufficere ad salutem. They deprecate the wonder of the reader that so many Bibles and New Testaments should be the subject of reprobation; but justify themselves by the observation, that the greater the danger, the greater should be the caution. With other common-place observations the prefatory address concludes. The Catalogue itself occupies eight leaves, and is principally constituted of the names and works of the Reformers. The condemned Bibles and New Testaments, in different languages, amount to nearly fifty*. I possess an apparently contemporary MS. copy, appended to Articuli Orthodoxæ religionis per Cæsaræam Majestatem confirmati, 1544, of what appears to be the same Catalogue, Impressus

*The Bibliotheca of Michiels enumerates two copies of this Catalogue. It contains, likewise, one in Flemish, differing somewhat in title, and, it is to be presumed, in contents, from the Flemish one of the same year just mentioned.

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