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Ordinance concerning Printers, Booksellers and School masters, Brussels (1570)

Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW 1704 C 55

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Ordinance concerning Printers, Booksellers and School masters, Brussels (1570), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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XXVII.

Ende om dies te beter te versien opde abuysen die gecommitteert worden int vercoopen vande boecken, wy willen dat alle librariers ende boeckvercoopers, t'zy printers oft andere, wesende alvoiren daertoe geadmitteert by ons, oft onse raden vande landen, daer zy sullen willen woenen, ende boecken vercoopen, gelijck oick versien is byde ordinancie voirscreuen, insgelijcx eedt doen sullen in handen van dien vande voirseyden raden, dat zy gheen boecken bringen oft vueren, doen bringen oft vueren en sullen van buyten in onse voirseyde landen van herwertsouere, noch oick inde selue vercoopen, coopen oft van andere aenueerden. Ten zy dat de selue eertstmael gevisiteert, onderteeckent ende gecertificeert waeren byde commissarisen, dat die goet zijn, ende niet heretijck noch suspect. Noch oick vercoopen eenige byblen in gemeyner talen, noch andere boecken inde selue talen, tracterende van twijffelachtige materien int gelooue, dan den ghenen die schriftelijcken oirlof sullen hebben, de selue te mogen houden, naeden regule van t'voirseyde heylich concilium van Trente. Ende voirts te obserueren alle de ordinantien gepubliceert ende te publiceren op t'stuck vander religie. Ende besundere punctuelijcken te onderhouden, t'gene dat by t'voirseyde concilium van Trente, ende den appendicem daerby gevuecht, gestatueert is, ende oick by dese ordinancie, ende andere dese materie aengaende, gemaect ende alnoch te maken.

XXVIII.

Dat geen coopman, librarier oft boeckvercooper, noch yemant anders, en sal mogen open doen die coffers, packen oft balen van boecken, van buyten in onse voirseyde landen van herwertsouere gebrocht zijnde, zonder dat (nae vuytwijsen der voirseyder ordinancie vander religie) aldaer iegenwoirdich zy, yemant vande commissarisen oft visitateurs daertoe genomineert byden Bisscop oft inquisiteur, volgende t'voirseyde heylich concilium van Trente, mit eenen printer, librarier oft boeckvercooper, oft by gebreke vande selue, andere, hebbende betere kennisse van boecken. Ende sal de selue visitateur ende zijn adioinct gehouden wesen den inuentarijs vande selue boecken te ouersien, ende hebbende dien gecollationneert mette voirseyde boecken (op dat daerinne geen andere en commen niet begrepen wesende inden voirseyden inuen-


    

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