Canon 68 Sacred books not to be cut up or destroyed

Concerning its not being permitted to anyone at all to destroy or cut up the books of the Old and New Testament, and of our holy and approved preachers and teachers, or to give them over to the book-dealers, or to the so-called perfumers, or to anyone else whatever for destruction; unless perhaps one has been rendered entirely useless, whether by moths, or by water, or in some other manner. And he who from now on is caught doing any such thing, let him be excommunicated for a year. Likewise also he who buys such books: if he neither keeps them himself for his own benefit, nor gives them to another by way of kindness and for distribution, but undertakes to destroy them, let him be excommunicated.