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Resolution concerning the Grant of Book Privileges, The Hague (1686)

Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KW 402 A 73

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Resolution concerning the Grant of Book Privileges, The Hague (1686), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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1686
9 January


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[IN THE MARGIN: 6. For Booksellers petitioning Patents on several Books, one Patent will be sufficient, if the Tractates are fully developed by one Author; otherwise they have to have several Letters Patent.]

On the occasion of the Petition presented to your Noble High Mightiness by Jan ten Hoorn, Bookprinter within the City of Amsterdam, having petitioned Patent to be allowed to print several Tractates in Medicine by Steven Blanckaert en Heydentryk Overkamp, Dr. in that Medicine within the City of Amsterdam: Has been approved and understood that the Authors of such Books, or those who would wish to print them, and when petitioning Patent for the printing thereof, will be held to print the names of the aforesaid to be printed Books or Tractates with its Name or Title: that moreover on one or more Tractates made by one and the same Author, and expressed in the Petition thereto presented, will be granted a Patent, in case these Tractates at the time of the petitioning of the Patent have been written by the aforesaid Author and brought to a state in which they can be printed, but not on Tractates which the author would not yet have completed or brought to a state in which they can be printed; but in case someone would petition Patent on some Books or Tractates made by differing Authors, that then as many Petitions have to be presented and Patent Letters have to be granted as there are Authors who have made the aforesaid Tractates, on which the Patent has been petitioned.


    


1686
9 January


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[IN DE KANTLIJN: 6. Boekdrukkers Octroy versoekende op verscheide Boeken met een Octroy te moogen volstaan, als de Tractaaten zyn van een Autheur, en tot perfectie gebragt; anders verscheide Brieven van Octroy te moeten hebben.]

TEr occasie van de Requeste aen haar Ed. Groot Mog. gepresenteert by Jan ten Hoorn, Boekdrukker
binnen de Stad Amsterdam, versogt hebbende Octroy om te moogen drukken verscheide Tractaaten in de Medicine gemaakt door Steven Blanckaert en Heydentryk Overkamp, D. D. in deselve Medicine binnen de Stad Amsterdam: Is goedgevonden en verstaan, dat de Autheuren van soodanige Boeken, of die geene die deselve souden willen drucken, Octroy versoekende tot het drukken van dien, gehouden sullen zyn de naamen van de voorsz te drukken Boeken of Tractaaten met haar Naam of Titul te expresseeren: Dat voorts op een en meer Tractaaten door een en deselve Autheur gemaakt, en ge-expresseert in de Requeste daar toe te presenteeren, sal werden verleent een Octroy, soo wanneer deselve Tractaaten ten tyde van het versoeken van het voorsz Octroy by den voorsz Autheur souden moogen zyn opgemaakt, en gebragt in state om gedrukt te konnen worden, maar niet op Tractaaten die den selven Autheur alsdan nog niet tot haar perfectie of in staat om gedrukt te konnen worden, soude moogen hebben gebragt; maar soo wanneer iemand soude versoeken Octroy op eenige Boeken of Tractaaten door diversche Autheuren gemaakt, dat alsdan soo veel Requesten gepresenteert, en soo veel Brieven van Octroy gedepecheert sullen moeten worden, als 'er zyn Autheuren die de voorsz Tractaaten, waar op Octroy werd versogt, hebben gemaakt.



    

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