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
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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