In 1627, Thomas James issued in Oxford an _Index Generalis_, which he had compiled from the Indexes of Clement VIII and of von Sandoval. At the close of the volume is given a list of authors whose works had been listed for expurgation by Brasichelli, Quiroga, von Sandoval, and in the Index of Antwerp. This compilation of James is of course not to be included in the series of Indexes properly so called. Its purpose was in fact to commend to the attention of scholarly readers in Oxford and elsewhere the books which had been emphasised by the Church of Rome as heretical and pernicious. Fuller specification of this noteworthy undertaking of James is given in a later chapter. _5._ _1607._ _Brasichelli, Master of the Palace._ _Index Expurgatorius.--Indices librorum expurgandorum in studiosorum gratiam confecti. Tomus primus. In quo quinquaginta Auctorum Libri prae caeteris desiderati emendantur, per F. Jo. Maria Brasichellen Sacri Palatii Apostolici Magistrum in unum corpus redactus, et publicae commoditati aeditus Romae ex typographia R. Cam. Apost. MDCVII superiorum permissu._ This is the second _Index expurgatorius_ in the Roman series. The compiler was the Dominican Guanzelli, from Brisighella near Faenza. He calls himself on the title-page, Fr. Jo. Maria Brasichelli. He had, since 1598, been the _Magister_ of the palace. Shortly after the publication of his Index, he was appointed by Paul V, Bishop of Polignani. He died in 1619, leaving his Index a fragment, only the first volume having been completed. This volume was printed in the printing-office of the Curia. A reprint appeared in Bergamo in 1608, which was within a year or two suppressed. A reprint was in press at Antwerp, but was suppressed. Further reprints appeared in Regensburg in 1723, in Altdorf in 1745, and in London in 1837. Even the reprints are very scarce. A copy of the original issue is contained in the Bodleian. The compiler says in his preface that the expurgation of books belongs to the responsibility of his office, and that he has, therefore, charged himself with the task of examining certain books which have been condemned _donec corrigatur_, and has done what was requisite, through the elimination of pernicious and heretical passages, to render these works available for the use of scholars and students. The number of such books is unfortunately very large, and he has, therefore, selected for his labours those which when properly corrected are likely to prove of the greatest service for the scholarly public, _quosque sibi e manibus extorqueri gravius ferre homines animadvertimus et quorum ut permitteretur facultas pene quotidie a nobis efflagitabatur_.... The texts which were issued with the corrections specified in his Index have been transferred from the class of condemned to that of approved books.... His second volume is, he reports, already in train.