PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Petition from and Privilege granted to Marcantonio Rossi for publishing choral work by the late Giovanni Guidetti of Bologna, Rome (1602)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 324 F. 253

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Petition from and Privilege granted to Marcantonio Rossi for publishing choral work by the late Giovanni Guidetti of Bologna, Rome (1602), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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1591 Edition of Guidetti’s Directorium Chori

 

Summary of 1581 Gregory XIII Privilege

 

There exists [be aware of] the Privilege of Our Most Holy late Lord

Pope Gregory XIII. that no one for ten years

Dare to print or having been printed sell the book

under penalty of self-executing major excommunication, and One

Thousand Ducats, as appears in the Privilege,

Dated the 13th day of November 1581

 



    

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1591 Edition of Guidetti’s Directorium Chori

 

Summary of 1581 Gregory XIII Privilege

 

Extat Privilegium Sanctissimi D.N. fel. re.

Gregorii Papae XIII. Ne quis per Decennium

librum unc audeat imprimere, aut impres-

sum vendere sub pena excommunicationis

maioris latae sententiae, ac Ducatorum mil-

le de camera, ut apparetin privilegio

sub die13. Novembris M.D.LXXXI

 

 



    

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