Bull on the Vulgate (Cum Sacrorum)
Clement VIII's 1592 bull regulating the printing and preservation of the corrected Vulgate edition, forbidding unauthorized printing for ten years and requiring conformity to the Vatican copy thereafter.
Preliminaries
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Full text of the bull reproduced
"POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER."
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Forbids printing by anyone other than the Vatican Press for ten years; requires conformity to the Vatican copy thereafter
"strictly forbid that for ten years... it be printed by anyone anywhere other than in our Vatican Press"
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Dated 9 November 1592
"Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, under the Fisherman's Ring, on the 9th day of November 1592"