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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:  | | Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons, Zürich (1739) Source: Private collection Citation: Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons (1740), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: d_1739 Full title Privilege granted by the Protestant Swiss Cantons to the Zurich-based publisher Bürckli regarding an edition of poems by Barthold Heinrich Brockes set to music by Johann Caspar Bachofen Full title original language N/A Abstract This privilege granted to the publisher J. H. Bürckli on 13 July 1739 by the mayors and councillors of the German-speaking Protestant Swiss Cantons is printed in a book with poems by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, who at the time was a highly popular poet from Hamburg. His collection "Earthly Delight in God, Consisting of Various Poems Drawn from Nature and Morality" ("Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott bestehend in verschiedenen aus der Natur und Sitten-Lehre hergenommenen Gedichten") was first published in Hamburg in nine parts between 1721 and 1748. The Zurich edition of 1739 contains a selection from the six parts that had been published by then. Not only the poems but also at least one of the copper prints was copied from the Hamburg edition. The image next to page 968 (see image 3) was anonymously re-engraved from a signed copper plate (Christian Fritzsch) which had been published at the beginning of Part 3 of the original edition of "Earthly Delight in God". New content was, however, provided in the form of various song-settings of the poems, composed for three (or two) vocal parts by the Zurich-based musician Johann Caspar Bachofen. The privilege bestows a 10-year period of protection and pronounces a ban on "any reprints of Brockes's poems with musical compositions, carried out wholly or partially, and in any other conceivable manner" ("Brockische Gedichte mit Musicalischen Compositionen, gantz oder Stück-weis, und überall auf was für Manier es seyn möchte, nachzudrucken"), as well as a ban on the import and sale of reprints made outside of the Protestant cantons. Apparently, this privilege covered not just text editions of Brockes's work, but also Bachofen's musical settings of these poems. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Johann Caspar Bachofen Barthold Heinrich Brockes Publisher Johann Heinrich Bürckli Location Zürich Year 1740 Language German Source Private collection Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1755) Brockes, Barthold Heinrich (1680-1747) Bürckli, Johann Heinrich (fl.1743) Persons referred to in commentary Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1755) Brockes, Barthold Heinrich (1680-1747) Bürckli, Johann Heinrich (fl.1743) Fritzsch, Christian (1695-1769) Places referred to Appenzell-Outer Rhodes Basel Berne Biel Glarus Hamburg Mülhausen St Gallen Schaffhausen Zurich Places referred to in commentary Hamburg Zurich Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary N/A Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words books, protected subject matter importation music, protected subject matter privileges, Swiss reprints Responsible editor Friedemann Kawohl Copyright status ok 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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