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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica, Nuremberg (1501) Source: Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg D 8603 Citation: Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (1501), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: d_1501 Full title Title, Dedications and Colophon with Reference to a Privilege of the Imperial Senate in Favour of the Sodalitas Celitica for an Edition of Works of Hrotsvit Full title original language OPERA HROSVITE ILLVSTRIS VIR||GINIS ET MONIALIS GERMANE GEN||TE SAXONICA ORTE NVPER A CONRA||DO CELTE INVENTA.|| Abstract The first privileges for books covering the whole territory of the Holy Roman Empire were granted by the Imperial Senate to a Humanists' academy ("Sodalitas") founded by Conrad Celtis. The original privilege has not been preserved, but there are references to it in an edition of works by the early medieval nun Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (1501) and in the Libri Amoris by Celtis (1502). The 1502 privilege specifies a ten-year term of protection. Ever since Pütter [d_1774] drew attention to them, the privileges for the editions brought out by Celtis's academy have been regarded as the first book privileges granted in the Holy Roman Empire. This commentary gives an overview of the book market in the Holy Roman Empire during the fifteenth century and of the sixteenth- century Imperial supervision of books, as well as some information on Celtis's life and his relations to Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). Details of the dedications, which appear both as text and illustrations, are highlighted so as to give an indication of the Humanists' political and artistic aspirations. The granting of privileges by the Imperial Senate in favour of Celtis's "Sodalitas" was in fact conceived as a gesture by the high nobility to promote the arts and sciences and to encourage loyal and deserving subjects of the Emperor, rather than as an early form of regulation of the book market. Bibliography Eisenhardt, Ulrich, Die kaiserliche Aufsicht über Buchdruck, Buchhandel und Presse im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation (1496-1806) (Karlsruhe: C.F. Müller, 1970) Luh, Peter, Kaiser Maximilian gewidmet: die unvollendete Werkausgabe des Conrad Celtis und ihre Holzschnitte (Frankfurt et. al.: Lang, 2001) Mertens, Dieter, "Sodalitas Celtica impetrata? Zum Kolophon des Nürnberger Hrotsvith-Druckes von 1501", Euphorion 71 (1977): 277-80 Related documents in this database Author Celtis, Conrad (1459-1508) Publisher Sodalitas Celtica Location Nuremberg Year 1501 Language Latin Source Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg D 8603 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Celtis, Conrad (1459-1508) Frederick III of Saxony (1463-1525) Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (d.c.973) Maximilian I (1459-1519) Persons referred to in commentary Amerbach, Johann (1414-1513) Brant, Sebastian (1457-1521) Caxton, William (c.1422-c.1492) Celtis, Conrad (1459-1508) Donatus, Aelius (fl.375) Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Erasmus (1466/69-1536) Frederick III (1463-1525) Fust, Johannes (c.1400-1466) Gutenberg, Johannes (c.1400-1468) Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (d.c.973) Frederick III of Habsburg (1415-1493) Koberger, Anton (c.1445-1513) Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515) Maximilian I (1459-1519) Mosellanus, Petrus (1493-1524) Oessler, Dr Jacobus (fl.1496) Peutinger, Konrad (1465-1547) Pütter, Johann Stephan (1725-1807) Reuchlin, Johannes (1455-1522) Rhenanus, Beatus (1485-1547) Schöffer, Peter (c.1425-1502) Tacitus, Publius (c.55-120) Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.) Places referred to Nuremberg Vienna Places referred to in commentary Augsburg Basel Bolzano Erfurt Frankfurt Heidelberg Ingolstadt Leipzig Linz Lyon Milan Netherlands Nuremberg Paris Poland Regensburg Rostock Toulouse Venice Vienna Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Edict of Worms (1521) Imperial Diet resolution (1524), prohibiting defamatory works Imperial Diet resolution (1529), installing pre-publication censorship Imperial Diet resolution (1530), on the supervision of local printers Imperial Statute Book (1548) Imperial Statute Book (1577) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Fust v. Gutenberg (1454) Institutions referred to Imperial Senate Sodalitas Celtica Institutions referred to in commentary Frankfurt fair Imperial Senate Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, Frankfurt) Sodalitas Celtica Key words almanacs authorship, corporate Bible, the book market book trade books, protected subject matter censorship censorship, pre-publication defamation duration grammars humanism immoral works medical tracts patronage printing, history of privileges, German Imperial privileges, Venetian religious works scholarly writing societies, authors' typography universities Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status Photographic images and scans of public domain documents may be protected under some copyright laws and/or contractual restrictions apply. If you wish to use images of this document in other contexts, please contact the relevant archive (see source). Translation and commentary fall under the project licence (see home page). 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