_1559._ _Paul IV._ The Roman Index of this year includes among books prohibited the _Talmud_ of the Jews, with all commentaries, glosses, and interpretations. In the same year, Ghislieri, Inquisitor-General, orders the burning of all copies. Sixtus of Siena was sent to Cremona, where there was a great Hebrew school and where was kept in store a supply of copies of the Talmudic books. Sixtus reports that he destroyed of these 12,000 volumes.[35] _1564._ _Pius IV._ In the Index of Trent, the prohibition of Paul IV is repeated, with the proviso that if the Talmudic scriptures (referring probably to the _Talmud_ of Jerusalem rather than to that of Babylon) are printed without the name of _Talmud_, and have eliminated from them all assaults on the Christian faith, they may be permitted. Graetz states that in October, 1563, the Jewish congregations had sent two deputies to Trent to secure the omission from the Index of the _Talmud_ and the other works of Hebrew doctrine; or if this could not be accomplished, that the decision concerning the form of prohibition or regulation should be reserved for the authority of the Curia. The latter course was adopted by the council, and the Pope, for a substantial consideration in money, issued a Bull (March 24, 1564) permitting the printing and the circulation of an expurgated _Talmud_.[36] _1565._ _The Inquisition of Rome_ (according to the tractate of Sixtus printed in 1566) condemns and orders destroyed all books having to do with the “Cabbala.” _1592._ _Clement VIII_ issues a Bull forbidding both Christians and Jews from owning, reading, buying, or circulating the Talmudic and Cabbalistic books and other godless writings, whether written or printed, in Hebrew or in other languages, which contained heresies or assaults upon Christian doctrines or upon the practices of the Church. The possessors of such books were not to be excused on the plea that the texts had been expurgated or were to be expurgated. The authority extended by Pius IV for such expurgation was recalled. The substance of this Bull was printed in the Index of Clement issued in 1596. In the same year, however, Clement issued a brief permitting the use of certain specified rabbinical books, when they had been verified as containing nothing directly antagonistic to the doctrines of the Church. In the Index of 1596, and in the succeeding Roman Indexes, stands a special provision concerning the book _Mazazor_ (_Machsor_) which contains in part the offices and ceremonials of the synagogue. This is forbidden in any editions printed in the vernacular, that is in any language other than Hebrew.