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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:  | | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance, Frankfurt (1598) Source: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt Flugschr. G. Fr. 931 Citation: Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (1598), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: d_1598 Full title New Regulation and Statutes, enacted by the worthy Council of the City of Frankfurt, as to what is to be adhered to henceforth by the printing-offices of this city. Promulgated on 10 October 1598. Full title original language Eines Erbarn Raths ernewerte Ordnung vnd Artickel, wie es forthin auff allen Truckereyen, in dieser Statt Franckfurt soll gehalten werden Abstract This document is associated with the core document: d_1660. Being a centre of the German book industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Frankfurt regulated reprinting matters through several printers' ordinances. The Ordinance of 10 October 1598, which appeared in 71 unnumbered sections, was issued as a result of a strike by journeymen the year before. Earlier ordinances had aimed solely at either settling industrial disputes (1573) or regulating reprinting (1588). Through the 1598 Ordinance, the Frankfurt City Council tried for the first time to address both sources of discord simultaneously. A reference to Imperial legislation is included (page 3). The Frankfurt Printers' Ordinances of 1598 were some of the earliest published in print. The title-page displays the Imperial eagle and explicitly refers to Frankfurt as an "Imperial City". The reprinting provisions of 1588 were by and large left unchanged in the general parts of the Ordinances of 1598 (page 16) and 1660 (page 19). There are two new reprinting provisions in 1598, both literally repeated in 1660. In the general first part it is stipulated that publishers must not lure away authors by offering higher fees. In the later part, addressed specifically at journeymen and apprentices, breach of confidence is identified as an offence, and the very act of taking printed sheets out of the shop is alone sufficient for prosecution, irrespective of what the journeyman concerned was intending to do with them. The general structure of the Ordinances of 1598 was adopted in the Ordinances of 1660. After a nearly identical preamble, it is in the first part dealing with "printing-offices, publishers, printers and journeymen in general" where we find the main provisions regarding reprinting and censorship matters. A general ban on small prints like "love poems, leaflets, broadsheets, songs, newspapers and other useless, over-abundant prints" ("Bulenbrieffe / Anbindtzettel / Haußzettel / Lieder / neuwe Zeitungen / und was dergleichen unnütze / uppige Trück mehr seind") was pronounced in 1598 but omitted in 1660. The censorship rules of 1588 were tightened in 1598, repeated in 1660 and again tightened further in the amendment of 1690. According to the 1588 Regulation (sections 7 and 10), printers were obliged to submit, twice a year at the time of the fairs, a catalogue of the works they intended to publish. In 1598, however, a pre-censorship rule was instituted for every single publication. According to the 1588 provision, the catalogue drawn up by a printer and approved twice a year by the authorities was sufficient proof that he had complied with the censorship rules, whereas from 1598 onwards a register of works having passed censorship was kept by the censorship authority. Bibliography Gramlich, Jürgen, "Rechtsordnungen des Buchgewerbes im Alten Reich", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 41 (1994): 1-145 Kirchhoff, Albrecht, "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Preßmaßregelung", Archiv für Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels, II (1879). Pallmann, Heinrich, "Ein Buchdruckerstrike zu Frankfurt a. M. im Jahre 1597", Archiv für Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels, 8 (1883) Related documents in this database Author Frankfurt City Council Publisher Saur Location Frankfurt Year 1598 Language German Source Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt Flugschr. G. Fr. 931 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A Persons referred to in commentary N/A Places referred to N/A Places referred to in commentary Frankfurt Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (1598) Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (1660) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Frankfurt City Council Key words book trade censorship censorship, pre-publication employer/employee relations guild regulation guilds newspapers penalties printing, history of registration 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). 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