BIBLIOTHECA SANCTA — BOOK VI

By Friar Sixtus of Siena, of the Order of Preachers: On the ANNOTATIONS AND CENSURES upon the interpreters & expositors of the divine volumes of the New Testament — [being] of the Bibliotheca Sancta (the Holy Library)

Although in the preface of the preceding book I had promised to comprise all the annotations upon the expositors of both Testaments together in a single volume — lest I should sunder matters joined by the affinity of one and the same kind, and rashly multiply the number of books — nevertheless, when I observed that the annotating labor I had begun was swelling to a magnitude far greater than my expectation, and was exceeding the measure of the other volumes, it seemed good [to me] to divide the work into two books, and to embrace in this sixth book of the Library the Annotations and Censures which pertain to the expositors of the New Testament: so that by a partition of this kind I might, so far as could be done, preserve the equality [balance] among the volumes, and might breathe [rest] for some few days from the unremitting weariness of reading and writing.