Untitled - Shattering Denial

APPENDIX A
PROCESSUS INQUISITIONIS
UNDER this title we reproduce the oldest known copy
of a manual of the Holy Office, discovered by the Domini
can Francois Balme, in the University Library of Madrid,
and published by Tardif in the Nouvelle Revue listonque
de droit francais et Stranger, Paris (Larose et Forcel), 1883,
pp. 670-678. The date of the first formula is 1244. The
work was evidently written about this time.
Although very brief, it gives a rather complete insight
into the procedure and the penal code of the Inquisition.
In several passages, especially in the Formula interroga-
torii, the heretic in question is called a Waldensian,
although
the heretical doctrine mentioned is Catharan.
Littere commissionis
Viris religiosis et discretis dilectis in Christo fratribus
Guilelmo Raymondi et Petro Duranti, Ordinis Predicato-
rum Fr. Pontius fratrum ejusdem ordinis in Provincia
Provincie servus inutilis et indignus, salutem et spiritum
caritatis.
De zelo discretionis et devotionis vestre plenarie con-
fidentes, Vos in provincia Narbonensi, exceptis Villelonge
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