Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. IIPutnam, George Haven
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Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. II
Putnam, George Haven
Books -- History -- 400-1450; Copyright; Freedom of the press -- History -- To 1500; Manuscripts; Printers
Following the title, comes an address to the reader from the Rector
and Faculty of the University.
The Louvain catalogue comprises 295 titles, of which 62 are of
works in Flemish and in Dutch, and 233 of works in Latin. The
Archbishop’s catalogue comprises 69 titles, of which 55 are of
works in Latin and 14 of works in Spanish. In the Louvain list are
included certain specific writings of Erasmus, and also his entire
works (“Opera Omnia”). Erasmus was himself the most distinguished
student whom Louvain had sent out. There are also editions of the
Bible as printed in Paris by Robert Estienne, the works of Luther,
Zwingli, Melanchthon and other Reformers, etc. The Latin books are
from presses in Paris, Antwerp, Basel, Cologne, The Hague, etc. The
Flemish and Dutch titles are from Antwerp, Ghent, Middelburg, and
Leyden. The Archbishop’s Latin list includes the Koran and “all
books containing the errors of Mahomet,” the writings of Servetus,
Œcolampadius, and Zwingli, and the “Colloquies” of Erasmus. His
Spanish list includes “all books printed in Hebrew,” and “all
theological works printed in Arabic”; also “all editions of the
Bible printed in the vulgar tongue.”
III. THE SAME LOUVAIN INDEX OF 1550.
Printed in Cordova, by Francisco Ferdinand in 1551. This volume
includes, in addition to the titles of the books condemned by
the Divines of Louvain, a list of thirty works sanctioned by the
University for use as text-books. Among these are a Syntax, a Greek
Grammar, a “Copia,” and a Guide to letter-writing, by Erasmus of
Rotterdam, volumes which under a strict construction of language
might naturally be understood to be included among the “Opera
Omnia” of Erasmus, condemned in the previous list.
Following the list of the text-books authorised, is the catalogue
of the books previously condemned by the Inquisition, comprising
eighty-five titles. This includes various writings of Erasmus,
Luther, Servetus, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and other Reformers, also
all versions of the Bible in Spanish or in other vulgar tongues.
IV. THE CORDOVA INDEX OF 1554.
This is described on its title-page as a “Censura Generalis contra
errores, quibus recentes haeretici Sacram Scriptorem asperserunt,
edita a supremo senatu Inquisitionis adversus hereticam provitatem
et apostasiam in Hispania, et aliis regnis, et dominiis Cæsareæ
Majestatis constituto.”
It was printed at Cordova by Francisco Ferdinand, and was sold for
forty maravedas.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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