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Contract between Schiller and Cotta, Jena / Tübingen (1794)

Source: MS in the German Literature Archive (DLA) Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Cotta archive. A transcription has been published in: Stephan Füssel, Schiller und seine Verleger (Frankfurt: Insel, 2005), 324-327

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Contract between Schiller and Cotta, Jena / Tübingen (1794), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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      24. The price of the journal is 5 thaler 8 groschen (Leipzig
rate) for a whole year’s set of issues. Sold separately, the
price of each issue is 12 groschen.

      25. At the beginning of each year a list of the subscribers,
including their names, will be published, unless they have arranged
otherwise.

      26. Payments are to be made in ‘Convention’-money, whereby
the ‘Convention’ thaler works out at 1 Imperial thaler 8 groschen
(Leipzig rate).

      27. The publishing-house has to decide at the latest by the
beginning of July 1795 whether it is prepared to undertake
publication of the journal. Should it fail to do so by that date,
the contributors who have committed themselves to the journal have
the right to cancel their obligations towards the publishing-house.

      28. As soon as the Cotta publishing-house agrees to bring out
“Die Horen”, all articles already received by then will be judged
in due order by the Committee, and those that are selected will be
treated as stipulated in clauses 20 and 22.

      29. As regards [our] true commitment to publish the journal,
this contract comes into force only as from the day it has been
signed.

                        Jena, 28th May 1794


                        J.G. Cotta publishing-house                  Friedrich Schiller
                              of Tübingen

                                    J.F. Cotta

    

      24. Der KaufPreiß des Journals ist für
den ganzen Jahrgang 5 thlr 8 gr. Leipz. Courant, und
zu einzelnen Stücken das Stück zu 12 gr. sächs.

      25. Die Käufer werden alle Jahr vorge-
druckt, und wo sie es nicht anders verordnen,
mit Nahmen.

      26. Die Bezahlung erfolgt in Conventionsgeld,
den Conventionsthaler zu 1 Rthaler 8 gr. sächsisch
gerechnet.

      27. Die Verlagshandlung hat längstens biß Anfang
Julius 1795 ihre Erklärung zu geben, ob sie
den Verlag der Monathschrift übernehmen wolle,
widrigenfalls die engagierten Mitglieder das
Recht erhalten, dieser Handlung den Verlag aufzusagen.

      28. Sobald die Cottaische Verlagshandlung
sich erklärt hat, die Horen heraus zu geben, so
werden die schon eingesandten Stücke, der gehörigen
Form nach, durch den Ausschuß beurtheilt, und
mit den beurtheilten Aufsätzen wird es, wie nro
20 und 22 besagt, gehalten.

      29. Dieser Contract erhält, was die wirkliche
Uebernehmung des Verlags betrift, seine Ratifica-
tion erst vom Tag der Unterschrift.

                        Jena den 28. Mai 1794


                        J.G. Cottaische Buchhandlung                  Friedrich Schiller
                              von Tübingen

                                    J.F. Cotta

    

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