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- Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Louvain, Antwerp, Paris, Strasbourg, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Cologne, Vienna, Lisbon, Madrid and elsewhere: 1546-1844
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Catalogue Note
Mendham’s interest in what he came to call the “literary policy of the Church of Rome” stemmed from his belief that, like the canons and decrees issued by the Council of Trent, the various editions of the Index “stand forth, a specimen and illustration of what the religion of Rome really is.” It was only by examining the “authentic, authorised books” of the Catholic Church, he argued, that the British public could avoid the error of Catholicism. Mendham’s own contribution to this examination was substantial: between 1826 and 1848 he published reprints of two important early editions of the Index as well as its most recent incarnation, the edition of 1835, dedicated with some sarcasm to Gregory XVI himself: “this attempt to extend the celebrity of so valuable a boon, and to do it more justice than has been done by the Secretary of his Sacred Congregation is pertinently and gratefully inscribed by the Author.” Mendham also produced two editions, with a number of supplements, of his own contribution to the scholarly study of the Index, The literary policy of the Church of Rome exhibited, in an account of her damnatory catalogues or indexes (first published in 1826, revised in 1830).
Mendham’s collection of editions of the Index is impressive in both its historical and geographical range. The earliest books in the collection, the Mandement de limperiale Maieste donne et publie en lan xlvi (Louvain, 1546, with later editions in Flemish) and the Catalogue des livres examinez, & ce[n]surez par la Faculté de Theologie de l’vniuersité de Paris (Paris, 1551?) predate the first Papal Index of 1559 and demonstrate the attempts of the universities of Louvain and the Sorbonne to implement Roman edicts. The collection includes two contemporary editions of the Pauline Index of 1559, which was widely criticised and met with much opposition. The enforcement of the index stopped on the Pope’s death in 1559 to be replaced by the Tridentine index of 1564 (present here in a variety of editions) which won immediate and widespread acceptance. While many copies of the Index were printed in Rome, it was produced throughout both Catholic and, perhaps more surprisingly, Protestant Europe. Mendham’s collection includes the important Plantin editions of 1570 and 1571 as well as editions published in Geneva, Heidelburg and Hanau; there are also a number of copies of the Spanish Inquisition’s own Quiroga index, a version of the papal Indexes of 1564 and 1571.
As with many of the books in the Mendham collection, a number of the editions of the Index he acquired come from continental institutions, particularly from the Jesuit houses and colleges (most notably of Louvain, Brussels and Ghent). There are also copies here from two collectors represented elsewhere in Mendham’s library, Jean-François van de Velde and Captain J.-G. Michiels. Finally, the collection contains individual copies with an exceptional provenance, for example the 1632 Seville index belonging to Philip IV’s secretary Sebastian de Huerta and the 1619 Geneva Index from the library of Mauritius Moritz, Abbot of Roth.
Chronological list of editions:
Mandement de limperiale Maieste donne et publie en lan xlvi. Auecq catalogue, intitulation, ou declaration, des liures reprouuez. Louvain: Servaes van Sassen, 1546, 8vo, eighteenth-century red straight-grained morocco, binding slightly worn
Die catalogen oft inuentarisen vanden quaden verboden boecken. Louvain: Servaes van Sassen, 1550, 4to, later calf, boards detached
Die catalogen oft inuentarisen vanden quaden verboden boecken. Louvain: Servaes van Sassen, 1550, 4to, loose as issued, inscription of J.F. Vandevelde
Die catalogen oft inuentarisen vanden quaden verboden boecken. Louvain: Servaes van Sassen, 1550, 4to, loose as issued
Catalogi libroru[m] reprobatorum. Louvain: Servaes van Sassen, 1550, 4to, loose as issued
Le catalogue des livres examinez, & ce[n]surez par la Faculté de Theologie de l’vniuersité de Paris. Paris: Jean André, [1551?], 8vo, bound with (bound with Cathalogus librorum haereticorum, Venice 1554), later cloth-covered boards, binding slightly worn
Le catalogue des livres examinez, & ce[n]surez par la Faculté de Theologie de l’vniuersité de Paris. Paris: Jean André, [1551?], 8vo, seventeenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints worn
Cathalogus librorum haereticorum [counterfeit edition]. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1554, 8vo, later cloth-covered boards, binding slightly worn
Le catalogue des liures reprouuez. Louvain: Martin Verhasselt, 1558, 4to, unbound as issued
Catalogus librorum reprobatorum & praelegendorum. Louvain: Martin Verhasselt, 1558, 4to, later paper wrappers, inscription of J.F. Vandevelde
Index auctorum, et librorum, qui … mandantur. Bologna: Antonio Giaccerello & Pelegrino Bonardo, 1559, 8vo, eighteenth-century calf gilt, bookplate of Peter Hall, boards detached
Index auctorum, et librorum, qui … mandantur. Rome: Antonio Blado, 1559, 8vo, later vellum
Postremus catalogus haereticorum Romae conflatus, 1559. [Pforzheim: Corvinvus], 1560, 8vo, half calf, upper board detached
Index librorum prohibitorum. Cologne: Maternus Cholinus, 1564, 8vo, later calf, some paper repairs, upper board detached
Index librorum prohibitorum. Venice: Aldus, 1564, 8vo, later calf-backed boards, binding slightly worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1564, 4to, eighteenth-century calf gilt, joints and spine worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Lisbon: Antonio Ribero, 1581, contemporary limp vellum, binding slightly soiled Jesuits Louvain
Index librorum prohibitorum. Liège: (Gualterus Morberius for )Henricus Hovius, 1568, 8vo, early annotations, contemporary limp vellum, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Liège: (Gualterus Morberius for )Henricus Hovius, 1569, 8vo, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1570, 8vo, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints and spine worn
Index expurgatorius librorum qui hoc seculo prodierunt. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1571, 4to, seventeenth-century calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, upper board detached, binding worn
Index expurgatorius librorum qui hoc seculo prodierunt. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1571, 4to, seventeenth-century calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, upper board detached, binding worn Lucas, Jesuit
Index expurgatorius librorum qui hoc seculo prodierunt. [Heidelberg]: Johannes Mareschallus, 1586, 12mo, later calf, later blind-stamped calf, fifteenth-century printed endpapers, binding worn
Index expurgatorius librorum qui hoc seculo prodierunt. [Strasbourg]: Lazarus Zetzner, 1599, 12mo, contemporary vellum, binding soiled
Index expurgatorius librorum qui hoc seculo prodierunt. Strasbourg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1609, 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, joints worn
Index et catalogus librorum prohibitorum. Madrid: Alphonso Gomez, 1583, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, joints worn, worn at extremities
Index expurgatorius librorum. Strasbourg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1609, 8vo, later calf, binding worn, boards detached
Index librorum expurgatorum. Madrid: Alphonso Gomez, 1584, 4to, contemporary vellum, inscription of Alonso del Valdes, some paper repairs, binding slightly worn
Index librorum expurgatorum. Saumur: Thomas Portau, 1601, 4to, contemporary vellum
Index librorum prohibitorum a Sixto V., Papa. London: James Moyes for James Duncan, 1835, contemporary boards, ms notes and corrections by Joseph Mendham
Index librorum prohibitorum. Venice: Nicola Moretti, 1596, 12mo, contemporary calf-backed boards, binding slightly worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Rome: Impressores Camerales, 1596, 12mo, calf-backed boards, binding worn
Indices expurgatorii duo. Hanau: Guilielmus Antonius, 1611, 8vo, contemporary vellum, binding slightly soiled
Index librorum prohibitorum. Liège: Henricus Hovius, 1607, 12mo, contemporary calf, boards detached
Indicis librorum expurgandorum [counterfeit edition?]. Rome: typographia R. Cam. Apost., 1607, 8vo, contemporary calf, boards detached, spine worn
Indicis librorum expurgandorum. Rome: typographia R. Cam. Apost., 1607, 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, ownership inscription of Capt. Michiels, binding slightly worn
Indicis librorum expurgandorum. Rome: typis Comini Venturae, 1608, 4to, contemporary vellum,
Index librorum prohibitorum. An exact reprint [of the Rome, 1608 edition] … edited, with a preface, by Richard Gibbings. Dublin; London: Milliken and Son, William Curry, 1837, publisher’s cloth, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum. Madrid: Ludovicus Sanchez, 1612, folio, contemporary calf, boards detached, from the library of G. de Servais
Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum. Palermo: J. Baptista Maringo, 1628, folio, contemporary calf, binding worn, J. Vandevelde
Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum. Geneva: Jacobus Crispinus, 1619, 4to, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, metal clasps, imprint inked out, binding slightly rubbed, Moritz, Abbot of Roth, armorial bookplate; Kloster Roth, inkstamp
Index auctorum da[m]natae memoriae. Lisbon: Petrus Craesbeeck, 1624, folio, contemporary calf, binding worn, upper board detached, Samuel Norris, inscription
Elenchus librorum omnium tum in Tridentino, Clementinoq. Indice. Rome: typographia Rev. Ca. Apost., 1640, later calf, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum et expurgatorum novissimus. Madrid [i.e. Geneva or Lyons?], Didacus Diaz, 1667, contemporary vellum, binding slightly worn
Novissimus librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum index pro … Philippe IIII. [Madrid: 1640], folio, contemporary vellum, lacking engraved frontispiece, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1664, contemporary vellum, binding worn, unidentified armorial bookplate
Index librorum prohibitorum Alexandri VII. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1665, 8vo, nineteenth-century cloth, edges gilt, binding worn, Jo. M. Berhold, inscription
Index librorum prohibitorum Innocenti XI. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1683, contemporary vellum, Henricus Vanden Block, bookplate
Novissimus librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum index. Madrid: typographia Musica, 1707, contemporary limp vellum, ties, binding slightly worn
Suplemento a el Indice expurgartorio. Madrid: Joseph Gonzalez, 1739, contemporary limp vellum, ties, binding slightly worn
Index librorum prohibitorum usque ad annum M.DCCXI. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1711, 8vo, later half calf, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum Innoc. XI … jussu editus usque ad … 1681. Prague: Joseph Antonius Schillart for Paul Lochner, 1726, 8vo, contemporary calf, upper board detached, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum Innoc. XI. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1704-1734, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, boards detached, wear to extremities
Index librorum expurgandorum. Stadt am Hof: Johannes Gastl, 1745, 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, clasps, some wear to extremities, unidentified episcopal bookplate
Index librorum prohibitorum. Madrid: Emmanuel Fernandez, 1747, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, bindings slightly worn, Manuel Gerrard, inscription
Index librorum prohibitorum usque ad … 4 Juni … MDCCXLIV. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1744-1750, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, boards scuffed, joints worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … Benedicti XIV. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1758, folio, contemporary vellum, extremities worn, spine worn at head
Catalogus librorum a Commissione Aulica Prohibitorum. Vieanna: Officina Libraria Kaliwodiana, 1762, 8vo, contemporary paper wrappers, some wear
Erster[-sechster] Nachtrag zu dem Catalogo Librorum a Commissione Aulica Prohibitorum. Vienna: Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, 1764-1768, 6 volumes, 8vo, paper wrappers
Index librorum prohibitorum. Venice: typographia Columbaniana, 1766, 8vo, paper wrappers, rather browned
Index librorum prohibitorum … Benedicti XIV. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1758-1770, 8vo, contemporary calf, spine gilt, boards detached and worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … Benedicti XIV. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1770, 8vo, paper wrappers, slightly worn, bookplate of Joseph Webber, Kortrijk
Catalogus librorum a Commisione Caes. Reg. aulica prohibitorum. Vienna: Leopold Kaliwoda, 1774, 8vo, contemporary calf, boards detached and worn, spine worn
Catalogus librorum a Commissione Caes. Reg. aulica prohibitorum. Vienn: typis Geroldianis, 1776, 8vo, contemporary calf, boards detached, spine worn
Catalogus librorum a Commissione Aulica prohibotorum. Vienna: Leopold Kaliwoda, 1768, 8vo, paper wrappers, slightly worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … Pii sexti. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1786, 8vo, contemporary vellum, spine worn at head
Indice ultimo de los libros prohibidos y mandados expurgar. Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1790, 4to, contemporary vellum, ties, binding slightly browned, Libreria Cuellar
Index librorum prohibitorum … Pii sexti. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1786-1807, 8vo, contemporary boards, worn at extremities, Jesuits at Louvain
Index librorum prohibitorum … Pii sexti. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1806, 8vo, contemporary calf, binding worn
Catalogue des ouvrages mis a l’Index. Brussels: librarie Catholique and Demengeot, 1828, 8vo, original paper wrappers, worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … Pii septimi Pontificis … jussu editus. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1819, 8vo, original boards, binding worn
Catalogue des ouvrages mis a l’Index. Paris: Edouard Garnot, 1826, 8vo, original paper wrappers, binding worn
Catalogue des ouvrages condamnés depuis 1814 jusqu’à de jour. Paris: Pillet ainé, 1827, original paper wrappers, binding worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … Gregorii XVI … jussu editus. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1835, original wrappers, lacking upper wrapper, worn
Index librorum prohibitorum … editum anno MDCCCX. Mechelin: P.J. Hanicq, 1838, 12mo, contemporary calf, spine gilt, boards detached
Index librorum prohibitorum juxta exemplar Romanum … editum … MDCCCXXXV. Mechelin: P.J. Hanicq, 1843, 12mo, contemporary calf, boards detached, lacking spine
Index librorum prohibitorum … Gregorii XVI … jussu editus. Rome: typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1841, original wrappers, worn
Indice general de los libros prohibidos. Madrid: Jose Felix Palagios, 1844, original paper wrappers, worn
Liste des personnes qui ont été condamnées a l’acte public de foi … le 20 Septembre 1761. Lisbon [i.e. Paris?], 1761