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to

supreme legislator of the papal world,

who in 1835

obliged and bound his subjects,

as well foreign as domestic,

with a new promulgation of his will,

in an index of prohibited books,

published with the express and entire

sanction of his authority

this attempt to extend the celebrity

of so valuable a boon,

and to do it more justice than has

been done by the

secretary of his sacred congregation —

is pertinently and gratefully

inscribed by

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