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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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[1-9] Prohibiting, meanwhile, each and everyone of either sex of the Christian faithful, especially the printers of books and the booksellers, under penalty of 500 ducats of gold (the type which is used by the Apostolic treasury) and the loss of books and types, one part to our Apostolic treasury and another part to the same Giovanni and to his heirs and successors or to those holding a cause of action from him, and the remaining third part to the accuser and executing judge, to be applied unremittingly and to be incurred as a punishment for each act,

[9-11] lest for the said ten years for the duration of ten years [for the duration of twenty years] they dare or presume in whatever way to print the aforementioned summa without some sort of license, or having printed by him or by others to sell, or to hold for sale, any part of it, either in whole or in small sheets, even under pretext of deletions or additions, as in the city so too in the rest of the ecclesiastic state,

[11-21] Commanding meanwhile, the Legates as representatives of the Apostolic seat, our chosen sons, or the vicelegates of them, or presidents, governors, praetors, and other ministers of the laws of the provinces, the cities, the lands, and of other places in our aforementioned ecclesiastical state to assist with the protection of an effective legal defense whenever it shall be required, Giovanni,


    

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1. et singulis utriusque sexus christifidelibus praesertim librorum
2. Impressoribus et Bibliopolis sub quingentorum ducatorum
3. auri de Camera et amissionis librorum et typorum omnium
4. pro una Camerae Nostrae Apostolicae ac pro alia eidem Joanni
5. ac eius haeredibus et successoribus aut ab eis causam habentibus
6. ac pro reliqua tertiis partibus Accusatori et Iudici
7. exequenti irremisibiliter applicandis et eo ipso incur=
8. rendis poenis ne dicto decennio durante librum [Viginti annis durantibus] [decennio durante] summam praedictam
9. aut quamlibet illius partem tam in magno quam in parvo
10. folio, etiam praetextu declarationum sive additionum, tam
11. in Urbe, quam in reliquo statu ecclesiastico praesentis sine huiusmodi
12. licentia imprimere, aut ab alio, vel aliis impressam
13. vendere, seu venalem habere quoquo modo au=
14. deant, seu praesumant. Mandantes propterea di=
15. lectis filiis nostris, et Apostolicae sedis de latere legatis,
16. seu eorum Vicelegatis, aut Praesidentibus, Gubernatoribus,
17. Praetoribus, et aliis Justititiae Ministris Provinciarum
18. Civitatum, Terrarum, et locorum status nostri ecclesiastici praedicti
19. ut eidem Ioanni, eiusque heredibus et successoribus,
20. seu ab eis causa habentibus huiusmodi in praemissis efficacis
21. defensionis praesidio assistentes quandocumque a praedicto Joanne


    

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