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PIUS V (1504-1572). Bulla lecta in die Coenae D[omi]ni. [Rome: A. Blado], April 1566.
Broadside (630 x 435mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, 2 oval woodcuts, arms of Pius V and 2 historiated initials. (Without lead seal.)
This rare bull -- only two other copies are recorded -- is one of the first to be promulgated by the 'Great Inquisitor' Pius V (Michele Ghislieri, reigned 1566-1572). It is a long list of crimes to be anathematised and people to be excommunicated including heretics, pirates, sellers of military equipment to the Turks, plunderers of shipwrecks and those who import heretical teachings, a foretaste of his establishment, in 1571, of the Congregation of the Index which pursued heretical writings with renewed fervour. The bull is signed at the foot by Gaspar Reydettus and Alex[ande]r Riarius, the Apostolic Protonotary and Auditor of the Curial Court.
Broadside (630 x 435mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, 2 oval woodcuts, arms of Pius V and 2 historiated initials. (Without lead seal.)
This rare bull -- only two other copies are recorded -- is one of the first to be promulgated by the 'Great Inquisitor' Pius V (Michele Ghislieri, reigned 1566-1572). It is a long list of crimes to be anathematised and people to be excommunicated including heretics, pirates, sellers of military equipment to the Turks, plunderers of shipwrecks and those who import heretical teachings, a foretaste of his establishment, in 1571, of the Congregation of the Index which pursued heretical writings with renewed fervour. The bull is signed at the foot by Gaspar Reydettus and Alex[ande]r Riarius, the Apostolic Protonotary and Auditor of the Curial Court.