Sanctuarium profanis occlusum, sive, de ss. bibliorum prohibitione in lingua vulgari seu vernacula tractatus

This Mandate is placed at the front of this Work with the permission of the Lord Prelate of Paris, so that it might lean upon it as if upon a fulcrum or foundation, after it was read and approved by the Doctors who are of his Council.

APPROVAL OF THE DOCTORS.

We, the undersigned Doctors in Theology of Paris, hereby testify and certify that we have read the book titled: The Closed Sanctuary, or the Forbidden Bible to the common people, etc. by the author Mr. NICOLAS LE MAIRE, Licentiate of Holy Theology, etc., in which we have found nothing contrary to the Faith or good morals. Done at Paris, March 17, 1651.

M. GRANDIN. | F. LOISEL.

APPROVAL OF THE ORDINARY.

This book, whose title is: The Sanctuary closed to the profane; or a Treatise on the prohibition of the Holy Bibles in the common or vernacular language, first written in French by Mr. Nicolas Le Maire, etc. in the year 1651, now appearing in Latin, etc., as conformable to the Catholic faith and good morals, I judge worthy of public light. Herbipoli original: Würzburg, April 15, in the Year 1662.

Joannes Melchior, Bishop of Damiopol original: titular see, Suffragan of Herbipoli original: Würzburg. MS.