_Index Auctorum et Librorum qui ab officio Sanctae Rom. et Universalis Inquisitionis caveri ab omnibus et singulis in universa Christiana Republica mandantur, sub censuris contra legentes, vel tenentes libros prohibitos in Bulla quae dicta est in Coena Domini expressis et sub aliis poenis in Decreto ejusdem Sacri officii contentis. Index venundatur apud Antonium Bladum. Cameralem impressorem de mandato speciali Sacri Officii, Romae Anno Domini, 1559, Mense Jan._ This is followed by the prohibitory decree of the Inquisition, with a specification of the punishments for transgression as set forth in the _Bulla Coenae Domini_. To these penalties are added others, _nostro arbitrio infligendis_. The chief penalty was the _excommunicatio latae sententiae_. The Index itself is presented in three schedules or divisions arranged alphabetically: I. Authors, all of whose writings, past or future, are condemned. II. Books, classified by authors. III. Anonymous works. Then follows a list of _Biblia Prohibita_, and of New Testaments, with a general prohibition of all similar translations; and finally a list of sixty-one printers (printer-publishers) all of whose publications are condemned. The formula _donec corrigatur_, later so general, occurs in this Index but once. It is connected with Boccaccio’s _Decameron_. In Trent, the prohibition was confirmed subject to expurgation. The text of the _Decameron_ was duly corrected by a commission of five, and thus corrected was published in Florence in an authorised and privileged edition in 1572. The revision eliminated from the _Decameron_ the obnoxious references to ecclesiastics, but left in the text a number of episodes _contra bonos mores_ which had to do only with laymen. The revisers had, in some of the stories, changed the nuns into noble ladies, the monks to conjurers, an abbess to a countess, etc.[121] Paul includes in his Index a prohibition of the treatise or report that had been prepared in 1538, under the instructions of Paul III, by a commission of nine and printed in the papal printing office under the title of _Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum praelatorum de emendanda ecclesia_. Cardinal Caraffa, later Paul IV, was a member of the commission. The _Consilium_ was issued by Luther, in 1539, in a German version, with a polemical commentary. It was again printed by the ever-watchful Vergerio in 1559, the year of Caraffa’s elevation to the Papacy. Vergerio did not fail to point out that the Pope was condemning a work for the production of which he was himself in part responsible. The prohibition remained on the Index until 1758. In the Index of this year, the prohibition was modified so as to cover only the editions printed with heretical commentaries. The work closes with a form of license to be secured for the reading of the works prohibited. This license was, for some reason, omitted from the later reprints of the Index.