Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1667 edition of "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"

Added at 05:39 on 14 June 2024

#OnThisDay 14 June 1966 the Vatican announced the abolition of the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" ("index of prohibited books"), which had been originally instituted in 1557. This listed publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and therefore banned by the Catholic Church. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1667 edition of "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"

< Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele Leighton Library has a 1711 edition of "Apparatus Biblicus" by Bernard Lamy >