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Petition and Privilege for printing and distributing the Summa of St. Raymond of Peñafort, Rome (1603)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 339 F. 44

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Petition and Privilege for printing and distributing the Summa of St. Raymond of Peñafort, Rome (1603), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Privilege
[44r]

[1-3] For the future memory of the matter: since, as we have learned that after we had granted a privilege to our dear son, Miquel Llot, a brother of the Order of Preachers[Dominican Order], who intended to set in type the Summa of St. Raymond de Peniafort concerning Penitence and Matrimony along with the works of Johann of Freiburg, so that no one without a license license from29 him or from one holding [XXX] or legal authority from him, may print the aforementioned Summa, or, once it is printed by another, to sell it or to hold it out for sale, so that, accordingly, it may be contained more fully in our letters related above, with the matter having been abandoned by Miquel himself, or else abandoned,] our chosen son Giovanni Tallini, a bookseller in the city, has arranged to have the [aforementioned] compilation Summa of Saint Raymond cause by order set to type [at his own expense], [or he has purchased the books already printed and has arranged that the work begun by that Miquel be finished]

[3-6] intends fears lest—after he has set to type and published it—others, who seek to profit from another’s labor, will rush to set to type the aforementioned Summa to the injury and prejudice of Giovanni himself.

[6-13] We, wishing to bestow an indemnity to Giovanni Tallini himself so that he does not suffer loss from the printing of this sort and to bestow him special favors and grace to proceed, and wishing them protected by whatever excommunications etc., and inclined by the supplications humbly brought in his name concerning this matter, grant and indulge by apostolic authority with the force of the present decrees: that during twenty the next ten years counted from the first printing of the said work,

[13-20] no one, as in the city, so too in the whole of the world directly or indirectly subject to our Ecclesiastic state, may print the aforementioned Summa, without the special permission of the said Giovanni, or his heirs and successors, or those having licensed cause, nor, having been printed, to sell them without a license of this sort from him or them, nor hold them out for sale.


29 In the original Latin, the author seems to have changed his mind as to the placement of the word licentia. Originally, it was placed at the beginning of the clause after sine, but was subsequently crossed out and placed at the clause’s end. An idiomatic English translation requires that licentia return to its original position, even though this new position is confusingly close to its crossed-out predecessor.


    

Privilege
[44r]

1. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Cum, sicut accepimus [postquam nos alias dilecto filio Michaeli Llot fratri ordinis Praedicatorum, qui summam Sancti Raymundi de Peniafort de Poenitentia et matrimonio cumque lectis Joannis de Friburg typis mandare intendebat, ne quisquam sine illius licentia aut ab eo [XXX] vel facultatem habentis licentia summam praedictam imprimere, aut ab alio impressam vendere, aut venalem habere valeret, indulseramus prout in nostris desuper expeditis literis plenius continetur, re ab ipso Michaele intermissa, seu derelicta] dilectus filius Johannes
2. Tallinus in Urbe Bibliopola [sua impensa praedictam] summam causam per dictum
3. S.to Raymundi compilatam typis cudi [fecerit, seu libros iam impressos emerit opusque iam ab ipso Michaele coeptum perfici curaverit] per intendat vereaturque
4. ne postquam, in lucem prodierit, aliis qui ex alieno labore lu=
5. crum quaerunt, summam praedictam typis cudi facere current
6. in ipsius Johannis damnum, et praeiudicium. Nos eius [Joannis Tallini] indem=
7. nitati ne ex impressum huiusmodi dispendium patiatur pro=
8. videre ipsumque specialibus favoribus et gratiis pro=
9. sequi volentes, et a quibusvis excommunicatis etc. censentes
10. supplicationibus eius nomine nobis super hoc humiliter porrectis
11. inclinati eidem Ioanni ut intra viginti decem annos
12. proximos a [XXX] [XXX] primaeva dictae summae im=
13. pressione computandos, nemo, tam in Urbe quam in
14. universo statu nostro ecclesiastico immediate vel mediate
15. nobis subiecto summam praedictam sine speciali dicti Joannis,
16. aut eius haeredum, et successorum, vel ab eo, et eis causam
17. habentium licentia imprimere, aut ab alio vel aliis sine
18. huiusmodi licentia impressum vendere aut venalem habere
19. seu proponere possit, auctoritate Apostolica tenore praesentium con=
20. cedimus et indulgemus. Inhibentes propterea universis



    

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