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Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549)
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Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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and it is these who shall take the oaths from the Prior,
Counsellors and any other of our ministers who are
elected, as well as from the whole Chapter of our Guild
just before the ballot commences, and both separately
and jointly they can open an investigation in our Chapter
into any transactions by any one of our officials which
they consider to go against our rules. And they are
entitled to convoke the whole Chapter in order to
decree these inspections of theirs, and they shall have
the same authority as the syndics of the larger guilds.
FIFTH STATUTE.
That whosoever is nominated for
balloting as described above may
not ask to be exempted; rather, the
Prior and the Counsellors are obliged to ensure that
anyone who does ask this is balloted just like everyone
else, so that it shall not be possible for anybody to
shirk the duties which may fall to his lot, and, likewise,
once someone has been appointed, he may not refuse
the office, on pain of having to pay ten ducats.
SIXTH STATUTE.
That after the election of our Prior,
Counsellors, and six Council members,
as well as the honorary officials, the
same procedure is to be used by our Guild to elect a
Scribe who will have the task and duty of recording and
writing down in the present Statute-Book all the laws
and issued ordinances which may be made and decreed in
future by our Lords [the Doge and Council of Ten],
regarding the affairs of printing and the book trade, or
et siano quelli che habbino a dar il giuramento al
Priore, Conseglieri, et altri ministri nostri che saran=
no eletti, et a tutto il Capitolo della nostra universi=
tà inanzi che si comincia a ballotare, et possino cosi
separati come uniti sindicare nel nostro Capitulo tut=
te le operationi che a loro parerano fatte per alcuno
di nostri officiali contra li nostri ordini. Et possino
far convocar il Capitolo per placitar i loro Sindica=
ti, et habbino quella autorità che hanno li sindici
delle Scuole grandi.
CAPITOLO V
Che quello che sara nominato per do=
versi ballottare ut supra non possi far=
si dispenar; ma il Priore, et Conseglie=
ri siano obligati far che sia ballottato
come gli altri, accio che non sia aperta la via che alcu=
no possa schifare le fatiche che li potessero toccare,
et similmente dopo che alcuno sara rimasto non pos=
sa refudare, sotto pena di pagar duc. X. diece.
CAPITOLO VI
Che doppo l'elettione delli nostr &
Priore, Conseglieri, et sei di Zonta or=
dinarij, et di rispetto si debba con [?]is=
tesso modo per la nostra Università elegger un
Scrivano, il quale habbia carico et officio di no=
tare, et scrivere nel presente nostro Capitolare
tutte le Leggi, et ordini datti che per l'avvenir saran=
no fatti, et ordinati per li nostri Signori pertinenti
alle cose di stamparia et libraria overo alla nostra
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Citation:
Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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and it is these who shall take the oaths from the Prior,
Counsellors and any other of our ministers who are
elected, as well as from the whole Chapter of our Guild
just before the ballot commences, and both separately
and jointly they can open an investigation in our Chapter
into any transactions by any one of our officials which
they consider to go against our rules. And they are
entitled to convoke the whole Chapter in order to
decree these inspections of theirs, and they shall have
the same authority as the syndics of the larger guilds.
That whosoever is nominated for
balloting as described above may
not ask to be exempted; rather, the
Prior and the Counsellors are obliged to ensure that
anyone who does ask this is balloted just like everyone
else, so that it shall not be possible for anybody to
shirk the duties which may fall to his lot, and, likewise,
once someone has been appointed, he may not refuse
the office, on pain of having to pay ten ducats.
That after the election of our Prior,
Counsellors, and six Council members,
as well as the honorary officials, the
same procedure is to be used by our Guild to elect a
Scribe who will have the task and duty of recording and
writing down in the present Statute-Book all the laws
and issued ordinances which may be made and decreed in
future by our Lords [the Doge and Council of Ten],
regarding the affairs of printing and the book trade, or
et siano quelli che habbino a dar il giuramento al
Priore, Conseglieri, et altri ministri nostri che saran=
no eletti, et a tutto il Capitolo della nostra universi=
tà inanzi che si comincia a ballotare, et possino cosi
separati come uniti sindicare nel nostro Capitulo tut=
te le operationi che a loro parerano fatte per alcuno
di nostri officiali contra li nostri ordini. Et possino
far convocar il Capitolo per placitar i loro Sindica=
ti, et habbino quella autorità che hanno li sindici
delle Scuole grandi.
Che quello che sara nominato per do=
versi ballottare ut supra non possi far=
si dispenar; ma il Priore, et Conseglie=
ri siano obligati far che sia ballottato
come gli altri, accio che non sia aperta la via che alcu=
no possa schifare le fatiche che li potessero toccare,
et similmente dopo che alcuno sara rimasto non pos=
sa refudare, sotto pena di pagar duc. X. diece.
Che doppo l'elettione delli nostr &
Priore, Conseglieri, et sei di Zonta or=
dinarij, et di rispetto si debba con [?]is=
tesso modo per la nostra Università elegger un
Scrivano, il quale habbia carico et officio di no=
tare, et scrivere nel presente nostro Capitolare
tutte le Leggi, et ordini datti che per l'avvenir saran=
no fatti, et ordinati per li nostri Signori pertinenti
alle cose di stamparia et libraria overo alla nostra