Prohibition Against the Bible: Council of Toulouse, A.D. 1229

Council of Thoulouse, A.D. 1229.

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Canon xiv. " We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the old, or the new, testament; unless any one, from motives of devotion, should wish to have the Psalter, or the Breviary for divine offices, or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books."

Samuel Roffey Maitland, Facts and Documents illustrative of the history, doctrine and rites, of the ancient Albigenses & Waldenses, London: C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1832, pp. 192-194

Mansi, Giovan Domenico, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova, et Amplissima Collection, Paris: Hubert Welter, 1779, 1904, v. 23, col. 197-198.