Note 726 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
“Wishing also to impose a restraint ... upon printers ... who print without licence of ecclesiastical superiors, the said books of Sacred Scripture, and the annotations and expositions upon them of all persons indifferently ... (this Synod) ordains and decrees, that, henceforth, the Sacred Scripture, and especially the aforesaid old and Vulgate edition, be printed in the most correct manner possible; and that it shall not be lawful for anyone to print, or cause to be printed, any books whatever on sacred matters, without the name of the author; nor to sell them in future or even to keep them by them, unless they shall have been first examined and approved by the ordinary; under pain of anathema and fine imposed in a canon of the last Lateran Council” (Sess. iv.)