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Privilege
We, Maximilian by the Grace of God
elected Roman Emperor, at all times Augmenter
of the Empire in Germany, Hungary, Dalmatia,
Croatia etc., King and Archduke of Austria,
Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, and Count Palatine etc.
acknowledge that Our and the Empire's honourable,
beloved and loyal subject Eucharius Rößlin, Doctor
of Pharmacy, has written several treatises and
books which further the common good and, in particular,
the welfare of pregnant women and their newborn children,
and that he is willing to print and publish them.
Since for this reason We have accorded him a special favour
and granted him Our privilege, We wish to do so
publicly and on the strength of this letter: namely that no one
- in whatever rank, estate, or condition he may happen to be -
may reprint these books during the next six years from
the date of this Our Imperial letter; and that he may neither
offer for sale, sell, nor distribute in the Holy [Roman] Empire
any copies of them printed in foreign lands outside of the Holy
Empire, be they German-speaking or otherwise. We thus
earnestly bid, through this letter, and desire
all and sundry Electors, princes, spiritual and worldly prelates,
counts, barons, lords, knights, knaves,
captains, reeves, bailiffs, stewards,
administrators, officials, village and town mayors,
judges, councillors, townsmen, municipalities, and
any other of Our and the Empire's loyal subjects and followers
- to whatever rank, estate or condition they may belong -
to defend, protect, and secure the aforesaid Doctor Eucharius
in this privilege which We have given him; and to, therefore,
not allow the printing, offering, or selling of these books.

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We order them to do this everywhere in their principalities,
regions, cities, dominions and territories - if they wish to
avoid incurring Our and the Empire's severe displeasure and
punishment, as well as a fine consisting of 10 marks of
full-weight gold, which anyone who - in defiance of this Our
privilege - were to print, offer for sale, or sell these books,
would be obliged to pay immediately for each such instance:
half of the sum to Our Imperial Treasury, the other half
to the said Doctor Eucharius. In proof of which, this letter is
issued in Our and the Empire's City of Cologne on
the twenty-fourth day of the month September, AD 1512; in the
27th year of Our Reign in the Roman Empire,
And the 23rd year of Our Reign in Hungary.


      on behalf of the King,                  At the personal behest
      by his own hand.                        of the Emperor, at his court.



SERNTEINER

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[Page 3: dedicatory portrait showing Eucharius Rösslin and Katherine of Saxony]







Translation by: Luis Sundkvist (pp.1-2)