Roman Breviary

[...at the doors of the] Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles original: "Basilicæ Principis Apostolorum"; this refers to St. Peter's Basilica in the City, and of the Apostolic Chancery, and in the square of Campo de' Fiori original: "in acie Campi Floræ"; a prominent public square in Rome used for publishing official decrees to be published, and a copy of them to be posted according to custom. And we will, and by Apostolic authority decree, that after this publication, those who are present in the Roman Curia The administrative apparatus of the Holy See shall be bound immediately after one month has passed; others who live within the mountains original: "intra montes"; referring to Italy, south of the Alps, after three months; and those who live everywhere else beyond the mountains, after six months have elapsed, or as soon as they have the opportunity to obtain copies of this Breviary The liturgical book containing the daily public prayers (Divine Office) of the Church for sale, they shall remain obligated to pray and chant according to its rite, both in the Choir The part of the church where the clergy sit to chant the Office and outside of it.

Moreover, copies of these letters signed by the hand of a public Notary and sealed with the seal of some Ecclesiastical Prelate or of that court—or even those printed in Rome within the volumes themselves without the aforementioned or any other support—shall carry the same legal weight everywhere as these present letters would if they were exhibited or shown. But so that the Breviary itself may be kept everywhere inviolate and uncorrupted: we prohibit that it be printed, offered, or received anywhere else in the whole world without our express license, or that of a special Apostolic Commissary appointed for this purpose in the individual kingdoms and provinces of the Christian world. Truly, anyone who shall have printed, offered, or received it otherwise, we bind by that very fact under sentence of excommunication.

Therefore, let it be permitted to no man at all to infringe this page of our removal, abolition, permission, revocation, command, precept, statute, grant, mandate, decree, relaxation, exhortation, prohibition, binding, and will, or to go against it with reckless daring. If anyone should presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God and of His blessed Apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome at Saint Peter’s in the year of the Lord’s Incarnation 1568, on the ninth of July original: "septima Idus Julij"; the seventh day before the Ides of July, in the third year of our Pontificate.

In the year of the Lord’s Nativity 1568, in the eleventh Indiction A 15-year cycle used in ancient and medieval eras for dating documents, on the fifteenth day of the month of July, in the third year of the Pontificate of the Most Holy Father in Christ and Our Lord, Lord Pius V, by divine providence Pope, the above-written Apostolic letters were read, posted, and published at the doors of the Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles in the City, of the Apostolic Chancery, and in the square of Campo de' Fiori, the present letters being left posted there for a short space of time, as is the custom, and then removed by us, Julius Parinus and Johannes Bornotus, Messengers original: "Cursores"; officials responsible for the public delivery and posting of papal documents of our aforementioned Most Holy Lord the Pope.