![Index librorum prohibitorum, cum regulis confectis per patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Pii IIII. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1570. [Bound after:] PHILIP II, King of Spain. Philippi II Regis Catholici edictum de librorum prohibitorum catalogo observando. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1570. 2 works in one volume, 8° (161 x 103mm). (Without blank H8, spotting, faint dampstain in a few leaves.) 18th-century Belgian speckled calf gilt, interleaved with blanks (head of spine chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: title inscription dated 1570 and associated inscriptions on verso and verso of last leaf-- note recording rebinding dated 17 August 1756 -- Defline Sons, Booksellers of Tournai (printed label) -- G. Thezin, vicar at Tournai (inscription recording the purchase 01 July 1768) -- purchased from José Porter in 1957.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08358_0102_000(index_librorum_prohibitorum_cum_regulis_confectis_per_patres_a_trident094435).jpg?w=1)
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Index librorum prohibitorum, cum regulis confectis per patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Pii IIII. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1570. [Bound after:] PHILIP II, King of Spain. Philippi II Regis Catholici edictum de librorum prohibitorum catalogo observando. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1570. 2 works in one volume, 8° (161 x 103mm). (Without blank H8, spotting, faint dampstain in a few leaves.) 18th-century Belgian speckled calf gilt, interleaved with blanks (head of spine chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: title inscription dated 1570 and associated inscriptions on verso and verso of last leaf-- note recording rebinding dated 17 August 1756 -- Defline Sons, Booksellers of Tournai (printed label) -- G. Thezin, vicar at Tournai (inscription recording the purchase 01 July 1768) -- purchased from José Porter in 1957.
PLANTIN'S CELEBRATED REPRINT OF THE TRIDENTINE INDEX OF 1564, prefaced by the Bull of Pius IV, and followed by the extensive Appendix of books prohibited in the Spanish Netherlands, including books in French, Flemish and Spanish, among them works by Rabelais and others printed by Plantin himself; this list was most probably compiled by Arias Montanus. Different editions are recorded with the date 1570: this one comprises 119 rather than 108 pages, with an expanded section of condemned books in Flemish. As often the Index is preceded by the edict issued in the name of Philip II, which includes instructions on how the Index should be implemented: the books had to be burnt. Peeters-Fontainas 622; Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia, 266 and cf. 267.
PLANTIN'S CELEBRATED REPRINT OF THE TRIDENTINE INDEX OF 1564, prefaced by the Bull of Pius IV, and followed by the extensive Appendix of books prohibited in the Spanish Netherlands, including books in French, Flemish and Spanish, among them works by Rabelais and others printed by Plantin himself; this list was most probably compiled by Arias Montanus. Different editions are recorded with the date 1570: this one comprises 119 rather than 108 pages, with an expanded section of condemned books in Flemish. As often the Index is preceded by the edict issued in the name of Philip II, which includes instructions on how the Index should be implemented: the books had to be burnt. Peeters-Fontainas 622; Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia, 266 and cf. 267.