![Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum novissimus. Pro Catholicis Hispanorum Regnis Philippi IV, Regis Cathol... Antonii a Sotomajor, Supremi Praesidis, & in Regnis Hispaniarum, Siciliae, & Indiarum Generalis Inquisitoris, &c. jussu ... recognitis. Madrid: Diego Diaz, 1667. -- Index librorum prohibitorum Alexandri VII, Pontificis Maximi iussu editus. Rome: Ex Typographia Rev. Cam. Apost. [i.e. Madrid: Diego Diaz], 1667.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01595_1016_000(102653).jpg?w=1)
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Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum novissimus. Pro Catholicis Hispanorum Regnis Philippi IV, Regis Cathol... Antonii a Sotomajor, Supremi Praesidis, & in Regnis Hispaniarum, Siciliae, & Indiarum Generalis Inquisitoris, &c. jussu ... recognitis. Madrid: Diego Diaz, 1667. -- Index librorum prohibitorum Alexandri VII, Pontificis Maximi iussu editus. Rome: Ex Typographia Rev. Cam. Apost. [i.e. Madrid: Diego Diaz], 1667.
2 parts in one, 2o (338 x 217 mm). Titles printed in red and black, the first with woodcut of Spanish royal arms. (Some marginal worming at end.) Contemporary Spanish calf, spine richly gilt, sprinkled edges (spine a bit faded and rubbed, wear at edges and corners).
The monumental second edition of the Spanish Inquisitor-General's 1640 Index, enlarged by Alexander VII's Roman Index, first published in 1665. It is no doubt the largest Index ever published, and a monument to the maniacal fear of heresy that inspired the Spanish inquisition; even the Bible was not safe from its expurgations. Among the prohibited works it lists are passages in Martin Luther, in American histories (part I, pp. 77-82), in Castiglione's Cortegiano and in the accounts of the celebrated Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela (part I, pp. 97-98). Palau 118941; Reusch II, 50.
2 parts in one, 2
The monumental second edition of the Spanish Inquisitor-General's 1640 Index, enlarged by Alexander VII's Roman Index, first published in 1665. It is no doubt the largest Index ever published, and a monument to the maniacal fear of heresy that inspired the Spanish inquisition; even the Bible was not safe from its expurgations. Among the prohibited works it lists are passages in Martin Luther, in American histories (part I, pp. 77-82), in Castiglione's Cortegiano and in the accounts of the celebrated Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela (part I, pp. 97-98). Palau 118941; Reusch II, 50.