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Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest', N.N. (1675)

Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna 1447-A.Alt Mag

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Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest', N.N. (1675), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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The Privileges and Licences / which
have been conferred on this little treatise.

This little work has been
granted the following privilege /
by the mighty and invisible, /
and so therefore completely
invincible, Grand King of this
world's most vast and populous
territory - Selene* (in which land
the women, / according to
Lucian, / lay whole baskets
full of eggs / and hatch out their
exactly identical offspring by
the dozen ) namely, that anyone
is entitled to buy it / who has
sufficient inclination, / good will,
and money to pay for it - irrespective
of whether he may happen to be
learned or ignorant, / rich or poor, /
an important person or a nobody /


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* Gk. 'The Moon'


    

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