Ordenung und Mandat Keiser Caroli V. Vernewert im April Anno 1550. Zu Aussrotten und zu Vertilgen, die Secten und Spaltung, Welche Entstanden Sind, Widder Unsern Heiligen Christlichen Glauben, und Wider die Ordenung unser Mutter der Heiligen Christlichen Kirchen. Item ein Register der Verworffenen und Verbottenen Büchern, auch von Guten Büchern, Welche Man inn der Schulen Lesen Mag. Item Eine Vermanung des Rectors der Universitet zu Löuen. Item ein Ander Keisers Mandat, von dem Selbigen Handel im 40. Jar Ausgangen

72057593498894297: Magdeburg: s. n. (Line "Gedrukt zu Magdeburg" at the end of preface, hidden under a broad stroke of printer's ink), 1550. First German edition; 7 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [68], collated; contemporary plain beige wraps; a few small rubbed spots and minor loss of paper to lower corners of wraps and spine; age-toning and some staining to margins (mostly not affecting text); cut to fore-edge of third leaf; contemporary notes to margins and underlining; overall very good-.A German translation of the ordinance of 1550, issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, against dangerous heretical books. Also included in the publication were the Louvain Index of April 1550 of forbidden books and a list of "good" and "approved" books to be read in schools. The Louvain Index was first drawn, on Charles V's demand, in 1546 by the University of Louvain and published simultaneously in Latin, Dutch and French. In 1550, the list of pernicious books was greatly enlarged (the current edition). The books were listed in alphabetical order, by author's name, and also included were books by anonymous authors and translators by language (Welsh New Testament editions, Greek and Latin bibles, etc). The translator, Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520 – 1575), was a Lutheran reformer from Istria (present day Croatia). He was appointed Professor of Hebrew at the the University of Wittenberg in 1544, where he came under the influence of Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther. Though, as time went by, Illyricus began vehemently opposing the two Lutheran reformers, who in turn spoke of him as "we have nourished a snake in our bosom." In the preface to his current work, which he claimed he had translated from the Flemish, he wholeheartedly attacked Charles V and his lists of prohibitions. (USTC 681462).