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Foundational Documents

  • Apostolic Letter Vigilantiae studiique Establishing the Council for the Promotion of Biblical Sciences (30 October 1902)
    (Litterae apostolicae «Vigilantiae studiique» quibus Consilium instituitur studiis Sacrae Scripturae provehendis)
    [ASS 35 (1902-1903) 232-238]
    [ItalianLatin]

  • Apostolic Letter Scripturae Sanctae on the Academic Degrees Conferred by the Biblical Commission (23 February 1904)
    (Litterae apostolicae «Scripturae Sanctae» de academicis in Sacra Scriptura gradibus a Commissione Biblica conferendis)
    [ASS 36 (1903-1904) 530-532]
    [ItalianLatin]

  • Motu Proprio Praestantia Scripturae on the Decisions of the Pontifical Biblical Council and on the Censures and Penalties Against Those Who Neglect to Observe the Prescriptions Against the Errors of the Modernists (18 November 1907)
    (Motu proprio «Praestantia Scripturae», De sententiis Pontificalis Consilii rei biblicae provehendae praepositi ac de censuris et poenis in eos qui praescripta adversus modernistarum errores neglexerint)
    [ASS 40 (1907) 723-726]
    [ItalianLatin]
  • Apostolic Letter issued “Motu proprio” Sedula cura On New Laws Regulating the Pontifical Biblical Commission (27 June 1971)
    Litterae Apostolicae Motu Proprio datae «Sedula cura», De Pontificia Commissione Biblica ordinanda novae leges statuuntur

    [AAS 63 (1971) 665-669]
    [ItalianLatin]