The polyglot Bible, the result of the enterprise and persistence of Plantin, and of the erudition, independence of thought and courage of Montanus, survived all the attacks that were made upon it, and remains one of the greatest monuments as well of the erudition as of the publishing enterprise of the sixteenth century. From a financial point of view, the undertaking was, however, a failure. It had probably been planned on too large a scale, while the outlays were seriously increased and the returns from sales not a little delayed and lessened in connection with the many obstacles in the issue of the privileges, and in connection also with the serious assaults made upon the orthodoxy of the book by certain Spanish ecclesiastics. The first edition printed had comprised 1213 copies, a considerable proportion of which were, five years later, still in the hands of the publishers. Plantin was left heavily in debt, the amount of the deficiency being increased by the failure of King Philip to complete the payment of the promised subsidy. The more important of the publications of Plantin’s Press which followed the big Bible, are as follows: 1571. The “Psalterium,” printed with the aid of Cardinal Granvelle. An “Index Expurgatorius,” prepared, under the direction of Philip II., for the use of the censors throughout the kingdom. The preparation of the “Index” was confided to a college or commission of ecclesiastics sitting at Antwerp, and comprising, among others, the Bishop of Louvain and Arias Montanus. The “Index” specified what portions of the books condemned contained heretical material, and the booksellers in each town were charged to cut out the condemned pages and were permitted to sell the books thus expurgated. The first of the “Indexes” issued in the Low Countries had been printed in Louvain in 1546, by Seruacs van Sassen (see reference later in this chapter). 1573. An “Antiphonaire,” printed with the aid of the Bishop of Tournai. The “Hours” of the Virgin. For this work, the Pope gave to the publisher a privilege (confirmed by his representative in Brussels) covering all the countries of Europe. 1573. “Thesaurus Theutonicæ Linguæ,” a dictionary of French, Flemish, and Latin. This was edited by Cornelius Kiel, who was the most important of the philological scholars associated with the Plantin Press. “Vivæ Imagines Partium Corporis Humani.” 1575. “Corpus Civile, Pandectæ, Codicis Justiniani,” twelve books. A long series of Greek and Latin texts. “Origines Antwerpianæ,” by Becanius. The author was a physician and an old friend of Plantin. His treatise proves that Flemish is the most ancient of the mother tongues of the world. The edition was paid for by the author, in whose name the royal privilege was issued. 1576. The works of Tertullian, in three volumes.