^Superscript = inserted by original or different author between lines

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{ } = supplied by transcribers

Bold script or Bold Script = written in a different hand(s)

Strike through = crossed out, but legible

[XXX] = illegible

 

 

Handwritten Privilege Translation

 

Pope Clement VIII

 

[1-7]: For the future memory of the matter. Whereas, as we have learned, our dear son Marc’Antonio Rossi of Rome, with great labor and industry on his part, has adapted and corrected the Directions for Choirs composed by the late Giovanni Guidetti of Bologna, has brought it together with [iuxta] a new Roman Breviary, with a necessary addition of many things [lit: with an addition, necessary and of many things], and intends to publish [it],

 

[7-10] and [whereas] he fears lest, after it has come out, others, who seek profit from the work of another, should dare to have a Directory of this kind printed, to the prejudice of Marc Antony himself,

 

[10-14] we, wishing to provide for an indemnity of the aforementioned Marc Antony, lest he should suffer excessive expense from the printing of this sort [of work], and wishing that the same [Marc Antony] proceed with special favors and blessings, and decreeing [that he be free] from any excommunications,

 

[14-26] inclined by the supplications humbly brought before us in his name concerning this [privilege], grant and concede to the same Marc Antony, that, for the next decade, counting continuously from the first printing of the aforementioned Directory – provided that it has been approved by the master of the Sacred Palace – no one – either in Rome or in our entire ecclesiastical state, immediately or mediately subjected to our authority – shall be able to print, or – [if it has been] printed by another, or others, lacking permission of this sort – sell or have or hold out for sale the aforementioned Directory without special permission of the aforementioned Marc Antony – either of his heirs and successors or from him [directly] and of men holding rights from him.

 

[26-34] Therefore, under penalty of five hundred ducats of gold from the treasury, and the loss of all their books and presses, [the fine] to be applied unremittingly in three parts, one [part] for our apostolic treasury, and another [part] for the same Marc Antony, or his heirs and successors, or those holding the right of action from him, and the remaining [part] to the accusor himself and the executing judge – and with the penalties having to be incurred by [the violator] himself –

 

[34-40] we prohibit the aforementioned parties from in any way daring or presuming during the aforementioned next decade to print any part the Directory of the aforementioned men, in small or large folio, in Rome or in the rest of the ecclesiastical state, even under pretext of deletions or additions, without the permission to this effect, [and we prohibit anyone from daring or presuming during that time period] to sell, have for sale, or advertise such a work having been printed by others.

 

[40-49]: Commanding that our dear sons, and the legates of the Lateran apostolic seat, or their Vice-legates, or the Presidents, Governors, Praetors, and other Ministers of Justice of the Provinces, States, Lands, and places of our said ecclesiastic state, unfailingly carry out the aforementioned penalties against any violators, whenever they are assisting the same Marc Antony, and his heirs and successors, or those having cause from them, in raising an effective defense in other rulings of this sort, whenever they may be sought out by the same Marc Antony or other aforementioned parties.

 

[49-54]: Notwithstanding decrees and apostolic ordinances and any statutes and customs and privileges and indulgences strengthened by oath, by apostolic confirmation, or by whatever other reinforcement, and apostolic letters, however conceded, confirmed, and approved to the contrary of these decrees, and any other contrary authorities.

 

[54-59]: We desire, moreover, that precisely the same faith attach to the copies of these privileges, having been printed in the aforementioned Directory, undersigned by the hand of some public notary, and fortified by the seal of a person established in ecclesiastical dignity, as would be shown to the present [privileges] if they were being presented or shown.

 

[59-61]: Granted in Rome at St. Mark’s on the 2^nd day of August 1602 in the 11^th year.

If it please the holiest father, it may be expedited. Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini

                                                                                                M. Vestrius Barbianus.

 

 

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To the Holiness of our Lord

 

For

Marc’Antonio Rossi

 

So that he may

print

the directions

of the Choir

in conformance

with the Roman breviary

[xxx]

 

His Holiness was content

For the usual ten years

Xxx in the Papal

States

 

    [256v]

 

For Marco Antonio Rossi of Rome

A privilege so that others not print

For a period of ten years the Directions [Directions for Choirs] for Choirs

composed by the late

Giovanni Guidetto of Bologna

 

His Holiness was content

So long as it first

Has been approved

by the Master of the Sacred Palace [Papal censors]

 

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[ ] = inserted by original or different author in margin

{ } = supplied by transcribers

Bold script or Bold Script = written in a different hand(s)

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[XXX] = illegible

 

 

Handwritten Privilege

 

[253r]

 

Clemens Papa Viii

 

1. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Cum, sicut accepimus, dilectus 
2. filius Marcus Antonius Rubeis Romanus maximo
3. eius labore et industria Directorium Chori a quond[am]
4. Joannus Guidetto Bononiensis compositum aptaverit, et correxe=
5. rit, illudque, iuxta novum Breviarium Romanum
6. cum multarum rerum necessariaque additione redu-
7. xerit ac in lucem edere intendat, vereaturque, ne
8. postquam in lucem prodierit, alii qui ex alieno labore
9. lucrum querunt Directorium huiusmodi typis cudi facere
10. curent in ipsius Marci Antonii praeiudicium. Nos dicti
11. Marci Antonii indemnitati ne ex impressione huiusmodi
12. nimium dispendium patiatur, providere ipsumque spe=
13. cialibus favoribus et gratiis prosequi volentes eumque.
14. a quibusvis excommunicationis et cetera censentes supplicationibus eius nomine nobis
15. super hoc humiliter porrectis inclinati, eidem Marco 
16. Antonio, ut Decennio proximo a primaeva dicti
17. Directorii, dummodo antea a Magistro Sacri Palatii
18. approbatum sit, impressione computando durante
19. nemo tam in Urbe, quam in universo statu nostro ecclesiastico
20. immediate vel mediate nobis subiecto Directorium
21. praedictum sine speciali dicti Marci Antonii, aut eius

 

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22.  haeredum et successorum aut ab eo, et eius causam habentium
23. licentia imprimere, aut ab aliis, vel aliis sine huiusmodi licentia
24. impressum vendere, aut venale habere, seu proponere
25. possit, auctoritate apostolica tenore praesentium concedimus, et
26. indulgemus. Inhibentes propterea Universis utriusque
27. sexus Christifidelibus praesertim librorum impressoribus,
28. et Bibliopolis sub quingentorum ducatorum auri de
29. Camera et amissionis librorum et typorum omnium pro
30. una Camerae nostrae apostolicae ac pro alia eidem Marco Antonio,
31. seu illius haeredibus et successoribus, aut ab eo, vel eius causam
32. habentibus, ac pro reliquia tertiis partibus Accusatori ,
33. et iudici exequenti irremisibiliter applicandis, et eo
34. ipso incurrendis poenis, ne dicto durante Decennio Directorium
35. Xxxx praedictorum, aut quamlibet illius partem, tam in ma=
36. gno, quam in parvo folio etiam praetextu declarationum, seu
37. additionum, tam in Urbe, quam in reliquo statu ecclesiastico
38. praedictis sine huiusmodi licentia imprimere, aut ab aliis im=
39. pressum vendere, aut venale habere, seu proponere
40. quoquo modo audeant vel praesumant. Mandantes
41. dilectis filiis nostriis, et apostolicae sedis de latere legatis, seu eorum
42. Vicelegatis, aut Praesidentibus, Gubernatoribus, Praetoribus,
43. Et aliis Iustitiae Ministris Provinciarum, Civitatum

 

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44. Terrarum, et locorum status nostri ecclesiastici praediciti quoties eidem Marco Antonio
45. eiusque haeredibus et successoribus, seu ab eis causam habentibus
46. huiusmodi in praemissis efficacis defensionis praesidio assistentes
47. quandocumque ab eodem Marco Antonio, seu aliis praedictis fuerint requi=
48. siti poenas praedictas contra quoscumque inobedientes irremisibiliter
49. exequantur. Non obstantibus constitutionibus, et ordinationibus apostolicis et qui=
50. busvis statutis ; et consuetidinibus et iuramento confirmatione apostolica
51. vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis, privilegiis quoque
52. indultis et litteris apostolicis in contrarium praemissorum quomodolibet con=
53. cessis, confirmatis, et approbatis, caeterisque contrariis qui=
54. buscunque. Volumus autem, ut praesentium transumptis etiam
55. in dicto Directorio impressis manu alicuius notarii
56. publici subscriptis, et sigillo personae in dignitate
57. ecclesiastica constitutae munitis eadem prorsus fides
58. adhibeatur, quae eiusdem praesentibus adhiberetur, si fo=
59. rent exhibitae, vel ostensae. Datum Romae
60. apud S. Marcum etc. die 19 Augusti 1602 anno xi^O
61. Si sanctissimo placet potest expediri P. Cardinalis Aldobrandinus

 

M. Vestrius Barbianus

 

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Alla Santità di N. Signore

 

Per

Marc’Antonio Rossi

 

Che possa

stampar

il diretorio

del choro

Conforme

al breviario

Romano xxx

 

Sanctissimus fuit contentus

ad X annos solitis

Xxx in statu

ecclesiae

 

 

[256v]

 

Pro Marco Antonio Rubio Romano

 

Privilegium de non imprimendo

Ad decennium Directorium [Directorium Chori] a quondam

Joanni Guidetto Bononiensius compositum

 

Sanctissimus fuit contentus

Dummodo a magistro

Sacri palatii prius

Approbatus fuerit