Theology of Aristotle

...you have also undertaken, at our encouragement, to have it printed, so that this labor of yours may not be in vain, should others also print it immediately after your edition. We command all and singular [persons] throughout the whole world, to whom these letters shall have come, under the penalty of excommunication of late sentence. To those indeed who reside in this territory of our Holy Roman Church, we command further, under the penalty of two hundred ducats to be applied to you, and the forfeiture of the books which they shall have printed, that for the next ten years to come, they dare not print [it] without your consent. We reserve to ourselves alone the absolution of all and singular [persons] who contravene this our will; and we desire that both those printing and those selling the printed volumes be held by the same penalties. But so that no one may dare to rise up contumaciously against this our prohibition, we command and enjoin all and singular Legates, Nuncios, Orators, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, and all ecclesiastical Prelates, as well as their lieutenants, and all governors of places, presidents, and commanders of forces, by the virtue of holy obedience and under the penalty of the same excommunication to be incurred, that, when requested by you, they prevent [them] with all assistance, lest anyone dare to renew [the printing] against our edict during the aforementioned ten years. Moreover, if anyone were so bold and reckless as to prohibit these our letters from being divulged, or to remove them once divulged from sacred or profane places, let him be guilty of the same penalties. Apostolic constitutions and ordinances, and any others to the contrary, notwithstanding. Given at Rome at St. Peter's, under the Fisherman's Ring, the 30th day of December, 1517, in the fifth year of our Pontificate.

Ia. Sadoletus.