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to examine them, together with the additional
parts^ as they stand in that celebrated edition. .
The Parisian edition of ] 520, described No.
XVIII. on the verso of the title-Ieaf» and after
the licence signed, Ainsi signe Rnse, has a
short address of the Printer to the Reader, in
which he states, that he had received Several
copies of the Taxe Cane. ac. Penit. Apost.
which he did not incorporate into one book, lest
he should fall into some omission, and which
therefore h^ printed in four parts, designated
by the capital letters^ A, B, D. To a se-
parate index to each he had however added a
general alphabetic one.
1 he ^st part. A, is inscribed, £t primo de
gratiis expectativis, is divided into thirty-seven
Tituli, althongh not nnmbered, and appears
exactly to agree with the corresponding part of
the edition of Leo X. as reprinted in 1664, and
with the first part of Banck's. It extends from
fol. i. to xvi. and consists of taxes upon num-
berless circumstances relative to ecclesiastic
benefices, dispensations, absolutions, licences,
indulgences, remissions, exemptions, transla*
tions, &c. &c. estimated in giossi ; among
which may be noticed, litera absolutionis a
Sylnonia, g. xvi. remissio facta uni diviti de
