RULES

In these types of books, however, which are accustomed to be compiled from the sayings, examples, or words of various writers, he who has undertaken the labor of collecting and compiling shall be considered the author.

§. ii.
Regulars, besides the license of the Bishop and Inquisitor (of which it was spoken in the tenth rule), shall remember that they are held by the Decree of the Sacred Council of Trent to obtain the faculty to publish a work from the Prelate to whom they are subject.

And they shall cause both concessions, which must be apparent, to be printed at the beginning of the work.

§. iii.
Bishops and Inquisitors shall take care, with penalties also proposed, that those exercising the art of printing do not append in the subsequent printing of books obscene images and those shameful ones accustomed to be printed even in large letters.

Regarding books written about ecclesiastical or spiritual matters, they shall not use large characters in which the species of some profane thing, let alone a shameful or obscene one, appears expressly.

They will also watch extremely carefully that in the printing of each book, the name of the Printer, the place of printing, and the year in which the book was printed, be noted at its beginning and at its end.

§. iv.
Whoever prepares an edition of some work, before he exhibits its copy to the Bishop or Inquisitor, [must see that] when they have recognized and approved it, they retain it with themselves. Which in Rome shall be reserved in the Archive of the Master of the Sacred Palace; outside the City, however, in a suitable place that the Bishop or Inquisitor has chosen.

But after the book has been printed, it shall not be lawful for anyone to offer it for sale to the public or to publish it in any way before the one to whom this care pertains has diligently compared it with the manuscript kept with him and has granted the license so that it may be sold and published.

And this is to be done only when it has been explored

that the printer has performed his duty faithfully and has not departed from the manuscript copy by even the slightest bit.

§. v.
Bishops and Inquisitors, whose duty it will be to grant the faculty to print books, shall take care to employ men of proven piety and doctrine for examining them, of whose faith and integrity they can promise themselves that they will look to nothing out of gratitude, nothing out of hatred, but with all human affection set aside, will look solely to the glory of God and the utility of the faithful people.

The approval of such men, together with the license of the Bishop and Inquisitor, shall be printed before the beginning of the work.

§. vi.
Printers and Booksellers shall promise under oath before the Bishop or Inquisitor, and in Rome before the Master of the Sacred Palace, that they will obey the Index of books, their own, in a Catholic and sincere manner, and the Decrees and rules of this Index, and the edicts of the Bishops and Inquisitors, insofar as they concern their arts: nor will they knowingly admit to the service of their art anyone who is polluted with heretical stain.

But if some outstanding and learned individuals are found among them, they shall also be held to profess the Catholic faith, according to the form prescribed by Pius IV of happy memory, at the discretion of the same Superiors.

§. vii.
A book by a condemned author that is permitted to be expurgated according to the prescription of the Rules, after it has been accurately recognized, purged, and legitimately permitted, if it is to be printed again, [shall be printed] besides the name of the author inscribed on the title page, with a note of condemnation, so that it may be understood that while the book may be received in some respects, the author is nonetheless repudiated.

In the beginning of the same book, mention shall also be made of both the time of the prohibition and the recent emendation and permission; for example: The Bibliotheca, formerly edited by Conrad Gessner of Zurich, a condemned author, and prohibited, is now by order of the Superiors expurgated and permitted.