Pope Clement VIII
Pope under whose pontificate the corrected Vulgate was perfected. Issued a bull forbidding unauthorized printing and prescribing rules for subsequent editions.
Works
Preliminaries
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PREFACE TO THE READER (1)
— Under his pontificate the corrected Vulgate was perfected
"at the beginning of the Pontificate of Clement VIII, who now holds the helm of the universal Church, the work at which Sixtus V had aimed was, with God's good help, perfected."
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PREFACE TO THE READER (1)
— The corrected Vulgate issued with his approval from the Vatican Press
"Receive therefore, Christian reader, with the approval of the same Clement, Supreme Pontiff, from the Vatican Press"
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Heading: Bull on the Vulgate issued under his name
"POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER."
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Issues decree forbidding printing of the Vulgate by anyone other than the Vatican Press for ten years; prescribes rules for subsequent printing
"We, desiring opportunely to provide that the same text may hereafter be preserved incorrupt"
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Prescribes penalties: loss of books, excommunication ipso facto for violators
"he shall incur, besides the loss of all the books and other temporal penalties to be inflicted at Our discretion, also the sentence of major excommunication"
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POPE CLEMENT VIII. FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER.
— Bull dated 9 November 1592, first year of his pontificate, at St. Peter's under the Fisherman's Ring
"Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, under the Fisherman's Ring, on the 9th day of November 1592, in the first year of Our Pontificate."