An Index of Prohibited Books (1840)

An Index of Prohibited Books (1840)
by Joseph Mendham
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AN INDEX

OF

PROHIBITED BOOKS,

BY COMMAND OF THE PRESENT POPE,

GREGORY XVI.

in 1835;

BEING THE LATEST SPECIMEN OF

THE LITERARY POLICY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

BY THE REV. JOSEPH MENDHAM, M.A. M.E.H S.
Author of Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Life of Pius V., Memoirs of the Council of Trent, Index Sixti V., Spiritual Venality of Home, &c.

Oratorio.
Pulchra Laverna,
Da mihi fallere, da justum sanctumque videri;
Noctem peccatis, et fraudibus objice nubem.
Hor. Ep. 16.

LONDON :
DUNCAN AND MALCOLM,
37 PATERNOSTER ROW.


MDCCCXL.

to

gregory xvi.

supreme legislator of the papal world,

who in 1835

obliged and bound his subjects,

as well foreign as domestic,

with a new promulgation of his will,

in an index of prohibited books,

published with the express and entire

sanction of his authority

this attempt to extend the celebrity

of so valuable a boon,

and to do it more justice than has

been done by the

secretary of his sacred congregation —

is pertinently and gratefully

inscribed by

the author

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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