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Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons, Zürich (1740)

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Privilege of the Protestant Swiss Cantons, Zürich (1740), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Chapter 1 Page 1

Mr B. H. Brockes

Count Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire, Senator of
the City of Hamburg, and Municipal Official
in Ritzebüttel.

EARTHLY
DELIGHT
in
GOD
consisting
of Physical and Moral
POEMS,
accompanied by
Musical Compositions
by
Johann Caspar Bachofen,
V.D.M.* and Cantor of the Zurich High School

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Privileged, and adorned with copper engravings
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Zurich, [published] by Johann Heinrich Bürckli. 1740


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* V.D.M. = "Verbi Dei Minister", a title
equivalent to the English 'Reverend'.


Chapter 1 Page 2

            We, the town and village mayors,
regional officials and councillors of the
Protestant towns and localities of the Swiss Confederation,
Zurich, Bern, Glarus, Basel,
Schaffhausen, Appenzell-Outer Rhodes, St
Gallen, Müllhausen and Biel, hereby make it publicly
known that: since our dear and faithful Johann
Heinrich Bürckli, book printer in Zurich, has duly
let us know that he is presently working on the publication
of the Hamburg Senator B. H. Brockes's "Earthly Delight in
God, consisting of Physical and Moral Poems,
Accompanied by Musical Compositions by Johann
Caspar Bachofen, Reverend and Cantor of the High School
in Zurich", and he is rightly worried
that profit-greedy persons might venture to
reprint this book both locally and abroad, and
thereby inflict losses on him, for which reason he has
urgently applied to us for a general privilege; that hereupon
We have graciously acceded to his request, and that on
the strenght of the present privilege We have decided and decreed that
not only shall it be forbidden, during the next ten years,
for all and sundry of our fellow-citizens to
reprint the aforementioned "Poems with Musical
Compositions" by Brockes - wholly or partially,
anywhere and in every conceivable way - but also
that, if, contrary to what we expect, suchlike should
happen outside of the praiseworthy Protestant Confederation,
then no such reprinted copies are to be imported or sold in
all of Our cities, towns, districts, and territories, always
on pain of confiscation of these copies and of incurring other severe
punishments and disgrace.

            In confirmation whereof, We have arranged for this privilege
in the name of us all to be archived and issued with
the Privy Seal of Our City of Zurich,
on the 13th day of July, in the year - counting from
the merciful birth of our Redeemer, One thousand, seven
hundred and thirty-nine.

                  [place of the seal]

Chapter 1 Page 3

[Page 968 and an unsigned copper-plate, re-engraved from a signed plate
by Christian Fritzsch and included at the beginning of Part 3 of Brockes's
"Earthly Delight in God" -
See: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/lo-677-2-1/start.htm?image=00004]


Translation by: Luis A. Sundkvist (title-page, p.2)

    

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