Title Page

Title Page

THE HOLY LIBRARY,

gathered by Friar SIXTUS OF SIENA, of the Order of Preachers, out of the principal authors of the Catholic Church, and digested into eight books, whose inscriptions [titles] the following page will indicate.

To the Most Holy PIUS V, Supreme Pontiff, Best and Greatest.

Revised anew by the same Author before he departed from among the living, and augmented; and now in very many places purged of faults; and enriched with a new Chronographic Table, [drawn up] according to the collation of the times.

A work, after the sacred Bible, supremely necessary to all who profess true and sincere Theology.

With three most copious indices.

THIRD EDITION.

(Printer’s device: an ornamental cartouche with a wreathed medallion bearing the motto) — Psal. 46 [so printed; the verse is Ps. 64:12 Vulg.]: “Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness” (BENEDICES CORONAE ANNI BENIGNITATIS TVAE).

AT COLOGNE, At the house of Maternus Cholinus. In the year 1586.

With the Favor and Privilege of His Imperial Majesty (Cum Gratia & Privileg. Caes. Maiest.).

[manuscript notes of the Spanish censors on this copy: “Expurgado 1640 — Ba(p). Davila” (“Expurgated, 1640”), and below: “Y corregido según el expurgatorio del año de 1632” (“And corrected according to the expurgatory (index) of the year 1632”)]