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General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden, The Hague (1710)
Source: Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, OTM: KF 62-4254
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General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden, The Hague (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Chapter 1 Page 1
GERARDI NOODT,
JURISCONSULTI & ANTECESSORIS,
OPERA
OMNIA,
Cum ante edita, tum adhuc
INEDITA:
QUORUM
Index & ordo est post Praefationem.
LUGDUNI BATAVORUM,
Apud JOHANNEM vander LINDEN, Juniorem.
MDCCXIII.
Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae.
Chapter 1 Page 2
PRIVILEGE
The Provinces of Holland and West-Frisia notify, thus has been presented to us by GERARD NOODT the true Doctor and Professor in Our University in Leyden, how that he supplicant was already in the process of letting others print in folio, or any other appropriate format, all his Works, already published by him as well as those he had in progress, and afterwards the Supplicant was apprehensive that some profit-seeking people would not deny themselves to copy from this full work or some parts thereof, to the detriment of the Supplicant, or of he who he would use thereto; so the Supplicant turned to Us, petitioning that it may please Us to grant him Patent and Privilege to exclusively print in the aforesaid Lands all his works, or some parts thereof, in formats and languages at his sole discretion, for the term of fifteen to twenty years, with the prohibition of everyone to print, or import in these lands copies reprinted abroad of, the aforesaid Works, or some parts thereof, without the consent of the Supplicant, on such penalty against the Infringers as we would approve to be set against that. So it is that we, having considered the case and the petition, and being inclined to the petition of the Supplicant, from our true knowledge, sovereign power and Authority, having consented, accepted, and patented the Supplicant, we hereby consent, accept and patent him that he, during the term of the next fifteen consecutive years, within our aforesaid lands, may exclusively print, cause to be printed, publish, and sell all his aforesaid Works, or some parts thereof, in formats and languages at his sole discretion, and we prohibit each and every one to reprint, or import in these lands copies reprinted abroad, to publish or to sell, the aforesaid Works in full or in part, on seizing of all the reprinted, imported or sold Copies, and moreover on a fine of three hundred Guilders, to be employed for one third for the Officer, who shall carry on the proceedings, one third for the Poor of the town where the case will take place, and the remaining part for the Supplicant, it being all understood that we wish to only favour the Supplicant with this here Patent to prevent his injury by the copying of the aforesaid Works, thereby is in no part understood the authorizing or advocating of the content thereof, nor that it is given any more credit, prestige or reputation under our patronage, and protection, but in case the Supplicant should exhort something improper therein, he will be held to account for it at his expense, to which end we expressly desire that if he will wish to put Our Patent at the front of the aforesaid Works, he will not be allowed to make an abbreviated or summarized notice thereof, but will be held to print, or cause to be printed at the front the Patent in full and without any Omission, and that he will be held to bring to the library of Our University in Leyden, a bound copy, in neat condition, of the aforesaid works, and give proper notice threof, all on penalty to the effect of being deprived of it, and in order that the Supplicant may properly enjoy our consent and Patent, we order each and everyone whom it may concern that they will make, let and allow the Supplicant to quietly, peacefully and fully enjoy, and use, the content of this, desisting all prevention of the exercising of rights. Done in the Hague, under our big Seal, on twenty-fifth March in the year of our Lord and Saviour seventeen hundred and ten.
A. HEINSIUS. Pres.
In name of the Provinces
SIMON VAN BEAUMONT.
The right of the above Privilege with all that belongs to it, I have ceded below to Johannes van der Linden, the Young, Bookseller in Leyden, on 27th April 1713.
Was signed
GERARD NOODT.
Translation by: Miluska Kooij
Source: Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, OTM: KF 62-4254
Citation:
General Privilege granted to Gerard Noodt in Leiden, The Hague (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Chapter 1 Page 1
GERARDI NOODT,
JURISCONSULTI & ANTECESSORIS,
OPERA
OMNIA,
Cum ante edita, tum adhuc
INEDITA:
QUORUM
Index & ordo est post Praefationem.
LUGDUNI BATAVORUM,
Apud JOHANNEM vander LINDEN, Juniorem.
MDCCXIII.
Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae.
Chapter 1 Page 2
PRIVILEGE
The Provinces of Holland and West-Frisia notify, thus has been presented to us by GERARD NOODT the true Doctor and Professor in Our University in Leyden, how that he supplicant was already in the process of letting others print in folio, or any other appropriate format, all his Works, already published by him as well as those he had in progress, and afterwards the Supplicant was apprehensive that some profit-seeking people would not deny themselves to copy from this full work or some parts thereof, to the detriment of the Supplicant, or of he who he would use thereto; so the Supplicant turned to Us, petitioning that it may please Us to grant him Patent and Privilege to exclusively print in the aforesaid Lands all his works, or some parts thereof, in formats and languages at his sole discretion, for the term of fifteen to twenty years, with the prohibition of everyone to print, or import in these lands copies reprinted abroad of, the aforesaid Works, or some parts thereof, without the consent of the Supplicant, on such penalty against the Infringers as we would approve to be set against that. So it is that we, having considered the case and the petition, and being inclined to the petition of the Supplicant, from our true knowledge, sovereign power and Authority, having consented, accepted, and patented the Supplicant, we hereby consent, accept and patent him that he, during the term of the next fifteen consecutive years, within our aforesaid lands, may exclusively print, cause to be printed, publish, and sell all his aforesaid Works, or some parts thereof, in formats and languages at his sole discretion, and we prohibit each and every one to reprint, or import in these lands copies reprinted abroad, to publish or to sell, the aforesaid Works in full or in part, on seizing of all the reprinted, imported or sold Copies, and moreover on a fine of three hundred Guilders, to be employed for one third for the Officer, who shall carry on the proceedings, one third for the Poor of the town where the case will take place, and the remaining part for the Supplicant, it being all understood that we wish to only favour the Supplicant with this here Patent to prevent his injury by the copying of the aforesaid Works, thereby is in no part understood the authorizing or advocating of the content thereof, nor that it is given any more credit, prestige or reputation under our patronage, and protection, but in case the Supplicant should exhort something improper therein, he will be held to account for it at his expense, to which end we expressly desire that if he will wish to put Our Patent at the front of the aforesaid Works, he will not be allowed to make an abbreviated or summarized notice thereof, but will be held to print, or cause to be printed at the front the Patent in full and without any Omission, and that he will be held to bring to the library of Our University in Leyden, a bound copy, in neat condition, of the aforesaid works, and give proper notice threof, all on penalty to the effect of being deprived of it, and in order that the Supplicant may properly enjoy our consent and Patent, we order each and everyone whom it may concern that they will make, let and allow the Supplicant to quietly, peacefully and fully enjoy, and use, the content of this, desisting all prevention of the exercising of rights. Done in the Hague, under our big Seal, on twenty-fifth March in the year of our Lord and Saviour seventeen hundred and ten.
A. HEINSIUS. Pres.
In name of the Provinces
SIMON VAN BEAUMONT.
The right of the above Privilege with all that belongs to it, I have ceded below to Johannes van der Linden, the Young, Bookseller in Leyden, on 27th April 1713.
Was signed
GERARD NOODT.
Translation by: Miluska Kooij