The Council of Trent (1545–1563): Canons and Decrees
The canons and decrees of the nineteenth ecumenical council, held at Trent (and for a time at Bologna) in twenty-five sessions under Paul III, Julius III and Pius IV: the doctrinal decrees on Scripture and tradition, original sin, justification, the sacraments and the Mass, with their canons, and the decrees of reformation. Latin text with J. Waterworth's English translation of 1848.
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Source: Sessions I–XXV, all decrees, canons and reform decrees. The transcription is the plain-punctuation text circulated by Documenta Catholica Omnia (bracketed editorial headings, lowercase deus/dominus in places, hard line breaks). Changes made: line breaks joined into paragraphs (a short line closing a sentence ends a paragraph), bracketed headings turned into markdown headings, and the digitisation's split enclitics rejoined ("ideo que" → "ideoque", "placet ne vobis" → "placetne vobis", "-ve"). Spelling otherwise as transcribed (e.g. "pro Dei floria" in Sess. XXV, an evident typo, is kept). The source omits the acclamations of the Fathers, the confirmation, Pius IV's bull Benedictus Deus and the list of prelates (marked […omissis…] at the end of Sess. XXV), and Paul III's bull of indiction. · Complete from Paul III's bull of indiction (1542, placed at the head of Session I) to Pius IV's bull of confirmation (1564, with the acclamations and the attestation of confirmation, at the end of Session XXV). Waterworth's page numbers removed. About 60 scanning errors of the Hanover file corrected against the 1848 printing (archive.org cu31924029369760), e.g. "maintain a new o be the est penance, as to Fake away" → "maintain a new life to be the best penance, as to take away" (Sess. XIV, ch. 8); the list is in the conversion script's FIXES table. Waterworth's historical essay and notes, which the Hanover file does not carry, are not included.