PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger, Augsburg (1515)

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg D 6467

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Imperial Privilege for Konrad Peutinger, Augsburg (1515), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Chapter 1 Page 1



IORNAN
DES DE REBVS
GOTHORVM. PAV
LVS DIACONVS
FOROIVLIEN=
SIS DE GESTIS
LANGOBARDO=
RUM


[Woodcut showing two Gothic kings – one of them
is Athanaric (d.381), prince of the western Goths]


Chapter 1 Page 2


                        MAXIMILIANUS DIVINA FAVEN
                        te clementia. E[t] Romanor[um] Imperator sem=
                        per Augustus: ac Germani[ae], H[un]gari[ae], Dal
                        mati[ae], Croati[ae] [etc.] Rex: Archidux Austri[ae],
                        Dux Burg[un]diae, Brabanti[ae] [etc.] Comes Pa
                        latinus [etc.] Q[uod] etsi nos pro solita nostra cle
mentia, eos, qui studia literarum colunt, plurimum diligamus,
illos tamen praecipua [et] singulari gratia nostra [pro]sequimur,
quor[um] industria libri [et] monum[en]ta vener[an]d[ae] vetustatis quot
tidie exquirunt[ur]. Et ne penitus obruant[ur], in lucem emittunt in
c[omm]unem omni[um] utilitat[em]. Cum ita[que] honorabilis Conradus
Peutinger Iu[ris] V[triusque] Doctor Consiliarius noster fidelis dilectus
exemplaria Itinerar[ii] Antonini Caesaris praedecessoris nostri
et Pauli Foroiuliensis Longobardi [et] Iorn[an]dis Gotti de re-
bus Longobardor[um] [et] Gottor[um] sua diligentia conquisiverit,
[et] excribi curaverit. Quos etiam in grati[am] nostram [et] c[omm]o-
dum, veritat[em] historiae scire volentium formis excudi, at[que] in
public[um] [pro]dire constituit. Ne ergo dispendi[um] aliquod patia[tur],
hanc sibi grati[am] fecimus [et] c[on]cessimus, [et] tenore pr[ae]senti[um] faci
mus et c[on]cedi[mus], Ne quis in vniverso sacro Ro[mano] Imperio, [et]
omni ditione nostra per continuum decenni[um] subsequens ab
ea die qua dicti libri ex ordinatione ipsius Consiliar[ii] nostri
impressi fuerint, citra, praeter, [et] contra eius voluntatem [et] sci
tum pr[ae]dictos libros [et] chartas inprimat, vel inprimi faciat:
nec eti[am] alibi impressos in eodem nostro, [et] sacro Ro[mano] Impe-
rio vendat, vel vendi faciat, sub poena amissi[on]is Chartarum [et]
librorum quorumc[um]que, sine praedicti Consiliar[ii] nostri vo-
luntate [et] assensu. Quos etiam de facto idem noster Consilia
rius vbic[umque] eos compererit, accipere, [et] in sui vtilitat[em] conuer
sere poterit. Harum testimonio literar[um] Sigilli nostri appen-
sione munitarum. Dat[um] in oppido nostro Friburgo Die pri-
ma Mensis Mart[ii], Anno domini Millesimo Quing[en]tesimo
Vndecimo. Regnorum nostrorum Romani Vicesimo sexto.
Hungariae vero Vicesimo primo.

            Ad mandatum C[aesaris] Maiest[atis] [pro]pri[um].


Transcription by: Melanie Maga-Hess

    


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