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Petition 1
[315r]
Most blessed father,
[1-8] Already the first volume has been printed of all the works from the Greek which have thus far been able to be discovered and obtained thus far of our father Saint Ephrem of Syria, having been given in Latin and having been illustrated all over with marginal commentary by me, I deem however that lest that work published recently in Rome, be changed or altered, or corrupted, whether by negligence or ill-will or any other pretense, or deformed by mistakes, or otherwise changed perchance in title, or form, either by adding or subtracting:
[8-19] I beg for an indemnity of the work already being published, Your Holiness, that your
motu proprio may warn, interdict, and restrain all the Christian faithful, especially printers of books, and booksellers, existing here and everywhere—for ten years counted from the date of the present decrees—should not dare or presume without my written license to print this first volume of works of Saint Ephrem, already published by me, and two others of the same Saint, afterwards to be published—God willing—for a span of as many of years to be counted from the publishing of each one of them, or to publish them either with another title, or form, or changed under any pretense, or translated into any other language, or having thus been published, to sell them, or to hold them for sale,
[19-22] under the usual penalties and censures that are assigned in this matter, and they will extend broadly in the
MOTU proprio itself. Whose prompt and agreeable expedition it will especially please to commit to the Reverend Secretary of Papal Letters in this truly pious and favorable matter. &c.
Your Holiness' humble and most devoted servant,
Gerard Voss, Priest and Doctor of Holy Theology, etc.
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Petition 1
[315r]
B{eatissi}
me P{ad}
r{e},
1. Impressum est iam primum volumen operum omnium
2. qua graecem
hactenus inveniri & obtineri potuerunt S. Patris
3. nostri Ephraem Sijri, a me rerens latinitate dona=
4. tum & Scholiis ubique illustratum: ne autem illud modo
5. Romae editum, a quoquam seu negligentia seu malitia seu alio
6. quovis praetextu, mendis deformari, aut aliter etiam forsan titulo
7. mutato vel forma, addendo etiam vel detrahendo, mutari, alterari,
8. corrumpi vel depravari possit. Supplicatum sit pro parte mea, &
9. pro indemnitate operis iam in lucem prodeuntis, S
ti- V {Sancti Vostri}. ut Motu
10. suo proprio caveat, interdicat, & inhibeat omnibus Christifideli=
11. bus praesertim librorum impressoribus, ac Bibliopolis, hic & ubivis
12. locorum existentibus, ne audeant vel praesumant per decem annos a Data
13. praesentium computandos primum hunc Tomum Operum S. Patris Ephraem
14. a me
iam editum, & alios duos eiusdem S. Patris, postea etiam Deo adiu=
15. vante edendos totidem annorum spatio ab uniuscuiusque eorum editione
16. numerando, absque mea in hoc licentia in scriptis data, imprimere, aliove
17. titulo, vel forma, quovis praetextu mutatos, vel alio quorumque idioma=
18. te versos edere, vel sic editos vendere, seu venales tenere aude=
19. ant, vel praesumant, & sub poenis & censuris in hoc apponi solitis,
20. & in ipso MOTU proprio latius extendent. Cuius expeditionem
21.
[XXX] promptam ac gratiosam R
mo Secretario Brevium in re praeser=
22. tim adeo pia & favorabili comittere placebit. &c.
Sanct. tuae humil. & devotissimus servus
Gerardus Vossius
p{res}b{yte}r ac S. Thelog.{ia} Doct.{or} &c.