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Early edition of the list of publications censored by the Catholic Church, to protect the faith and morals of the faithful by preventing the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The present copy is the first issue of the 1570 Plantin edition, another issue of the same year, with identical contents, has 119 pages. The work is preceded by, as issued, "Philippi II regis Catholici edictum De librorum prohibitorum catalogo obseruando," [16] pp. (A8). With the same imprint and date. This copy of the Index lacks the final two leaves, which were blank.