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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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conste, stijl ende ambacht van drucken oft printen, sullen gehouden wesen te exhiberen ende overleueren certificatie vanden Bisschop, vicarijs oft inquisiteur van hun bisdom oft diocese, hoe dat zy hen gedragen hebben in t'stuck vander religie, mitgaders vande wethouders oft magistraet vander plaetsen van hun woenstede oft residentie, van hun goet leuen, naem ende fame. Ende om de selue examinatie te doene, sal de voirseyde prototypographus oft hooftprinter mogen kiesen, ende met hem nemen, een oft twee vande meest geapprobeerde inden ambachte, mi eenen notaris, de welcke die briefuen van examinatie vande voorseyde meesters oft hoofden vande printerije oft druckerije, maken ende expedieren sal. Welcke briefuen de voirseyde Prototypographus oft hooftprinter gehouden zal wesen te zeynden aen ons, oft onsen voirseyden Stadthouder ende gouuerneur generael van herwertsouere, mit attestatie van hun nutheyt ende sufficientie op t'stuck van huere voirseyde conste, stijl ende ambacht. Om voirts daerop te vercrijgen onse briefuen van commissie ende confirmatie, mit last van eedt te doene, zoe hiernae geseyt sal worden.

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Ende aengaende de werckluyden ende medegesellen van huere voirseyde conste, stijl ende ambacht, mitgaders de treckers ende de ghene die de letteren stellen ende vergaderen, de selue sullen insgelijck gehouden worden t'exhiberen ende ouerleueren certificatie vanden bisschop, vicarijs oft inquisiteur van hun bisdom oft diocese, ende oick vande wethouders oft magistraet vander plaetsen van hun wonstede oft residentie, inder vuegen ende manieren als voiren. Waervan de voorseyde Prototypographus oft hooftprinter, hen sal doen expedieren briefuen van examinatie ende approbatie, mit last den behoirlijcken eedt te doene in handen vanden officier vander plaetsen van hun voirseyde residentie. Ende dat binnen drije dagen nae dat zy by hem gecommen sullen zyn, Op pene dat hy voir den resterenden tijt dat de selue aldaer t'zijnder occasien langer opgehouden sullen zyn, gehouden sal wesen hueren cost ende de schade die zy geleden sullen hebben, hun te betalen, tot arbiterschepe vanden rechter.

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Dat geen printer in zijn huys sal mogen nemen oft hebben eenige Ieerkinderen oft knechten, sonder t'selue eerst te laten weten den


    

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