Roman Breviary

[the Bi]ble of the Vulgate edition The Biblia Vulgata is the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that became the Catholic Church's official promulgated Latin version. according to the exemplar printed in the Vatican Printing House The Typographia Vaticana, established in 1587 to ensure the production of accurate, standardized religious texts., provided it is printed most correctly and with the highest fidelity, with no additions or reductions made. By our Apostolic authority The supreme power of the Pope as the successor of St. Peter. and by the tenor of these presents, we grant and allow that he may and shall have the power to freely and lawfully print it, and to sell and expose for sale the copies so printed; and we impart full, free, and all-encompassing faculty and license regarding this.

We therefore command our Venerable brothers the Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Bishops, and our beloved sons, the Nuncios of the aforementioned See, and any others whomsoever, that by assisting the aforementioned Balthasar in these matters with the protection of an effective defense, they do not permit him to be unduly molested by anyone regarding this in any way. They shall restrain those who oppose him through Ecclesiastical censures and penalties Spiritual punishments like excommunication used to enforce Church law., and other appropriate remedies of law and fact, with any appeal set aside; having invoked for this purpose, if there be need, the aid of the secular arm original: "brachij sæcularis"; the use of civil or state authorities to enforce Church decrees..

This is granted notwithstanding the decree of our predecessor of recent memory, Pope Pius V Pius V (reigned 1566–1572) was instrumental in standardizing the Roman Rite and its books after the Council of Trent., given on the seventh day before the Ides of July in the third year of his Pontificate, in which it is prohibited that the Breviary A liturgical book containing the public prayers, hymns, and readings of the Church. be printed anywhere other than Rome without the express license of the aforementioned See, as well as other Apostolic constitutions and ordinances, and all other things to the contrary.

Given at Rome, at Saint Peter's, under the Ring of the Fisherman original: "Annulo Piscatoris"; a seal used by the Pope for briefs and less formal documents, depicting St. Peter fishing from a boat., on the 22nd day of May, 1681, in the fifth year of our Pontificate.

Joannes Gualterus Slusius (Giovanni Gualberto Sluse), a high-ranking official of the Roman Curia and later a Cardinal.