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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:  | | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly, Venice (1469) Source: scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, NC, reg. 11, c. 55r Citation: Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (1469), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: i_1469 Full title Printing monopoly granted to a German master printer, Johannes of Speyer, conceding a five-year exclusive right to print in Venice and its dominions Full title original language N/A Abstract The first known record of a printing privilege granted by a European government. Unique in the history of Venetian copyright, for it concedes an extensive commercial monopoly over the entire art of printing. The commentary describes the early laissez-faire attitudes of the government towards the printing trade which combined with the natural play of economic forces to foster a thoroughly capitalistic structure of the book market in Venice. From this point of view, the emerging system of printing privileges could be defined as a primitive legal mechanism for the construction and maintenance of property and the re-introduction of scarcity into the book market. Bibliography Brown, Horatio Fortini, "The Venetian Printing Press 1469-1800: An Historical Study Based upon Documents for the Most Part Hitherto Unpublished" (London: John C. Nimmo, 1891) Castellani, Carlo, "I privilegi di stampa e la proprietà letteraria in Venezia: Dalla introduzione della stampa nella città fin verso la fine del secolo XVIII" (Venice: Fratelli Visentini, 1888) Gerulaitis, Leonardas V., "Printing and Publishing in fifteenth-century Venice" (Chicago: American Library Association, 1976) Pozza, Neri, "L'editoria Veneziana da Giovanni da Spira ad Aldo Manuzio", in "La stampa degli incunaboli nel Veneto, Saggi e note" (Verona: Tipografia Editoriale Aldo Manuzio, 1983), 9-35 Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Venice Year 1469 Language Latin Source scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, NC, reg. 11, c. 55r Physical description 1 folio parchment; 38.5 x 28.5 cm; bound in a wooden board codex; handwritten Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Contarini, Bertuccio (fl.1469) Dandolo, Francesco (fl.1469) Gradenigo, Angelo (fl.1469) Johannes of Speyer (d.1470) Morosini, Giacopo (fl.1469) Pliny 'the Elder' (23-79) Venerio, Angelo (fl.1469) Persons referred to in commentary Augustine, St (354-430) Barbaro, Daniele (fl.1493) Barbaro, Ermolao (1454-1493/95) Busca, Ercole (d.1484) Bussi, Giovanne Andrea (1417-1475) Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) Donatus, Aelius (fl.375) Granjon, Robert (fl.1545-1588) Gutenberg, Johannes (c.1400-1468) Henri II (1519-1559) Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480) Johannes of Speyer (d.1470) John of Cologne (fl.1471-1487) Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515) Navagero, Andrea (1483-1529) Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) Paganini, Paganino de (c.1450-1538) Pannartz, Arnold (d.c.1476) Petrucci, Ottaviano (1466-1539) Planella, Antonio (fl.1470) Plato (c.428 B.C.-c.348 B.C.) Pliny 'the Elder' (23-79) Sabellico, Marco Antonio (c.1436-1506) Sanuto, Marino, 'the Younger' (1466-1536) Sweynheym, Konrad (fl.1467) Ugo da Carpi (c.1455-c.1525) Valdarfer, Christopher (fl.1471) Windelin of Speyer (fl.1469-1487) Places referred to Venice Places referred to in commentary Bologna Europe Ferrara Florence Germany Italy Lyon Mainz Milan Naples Netherlands Padua Paris Subiaco (Rome) Venice 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 Venetian Senate Institutions referred to in commentary Abbey of St Benedict, Subiaco Paris Mint Venetian Collegio (cabinet of government), in the Doge's palace Venetian Grand Council (Maggiore Consiglio) Venetian Senate Key words book market book trade censorship classics, Greek and Latin free trade inventions manuscript monopoly patents, for invention penalties printing, history of privileges, Venetian translations, of classic works typography Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) Responsible editor Joanna Kostylo Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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