Vatican Press
The printing press of the Holy See, used for the authoritative edition of the corrected Vulgate Bible under Clement VIII. Clement's bull forbade printing the Vulgate anywhere other than the Vatican Press for ten years, and after that decade printers were required to obtain a copy from it as their model.
Preliminaries
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PREFACE TO THE READER (1)
— The corrected Vulgate issued from the Vatican Press
"Receive therefore, Christian reader, with the approval of the same Clement, Supreme Pontiff, from the Vatican Press, the Old and Vulgate edition of the Holy Scripture"
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Clement VIII forbids printing elsewhere 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.
— Printers must obtain a copy from the Vatican Press
"no one presume to commit this edition of the Holy Scriptures to the press unless he has first obtained a copy printed in the Vatican Press"