Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 208 F. 12
Citation:
Petition from and Privilege granted to Giulio Burchioni for publishing a combined volume of works on table service and household management, Rome (1593), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Translation of Handwritten Privilege
[1] Pope Clement VIII [proclaims the following] for the future memory of the thing.
[1-3] Whereas, as he has brought to our attention, our dear son, Giulio Burchioni, the bookseller in Rome, publicly names his book, written in the vernacular, The Carver by Vincenzo Cervio and by Reale Fusoritto;
[4-5] [and whereas] he plans to have it set in type adorned with many additions and illustrations and newly expanded with a dialogue by the same Reale under the title The Master of the House;
[5-6] we, wishing for him to proceed with special favors and approval [and being] favorably disposed towards the supplications concerning this matter humbly extended to us in his name,
[7-15] grant and indulge [the request of] the aforementioned Giulio by apostolic authority, with the binding force of the present decrees, [ordering] that, for the duration of the next ten years, counting from the first publication of each work or volume, no one – besides those who may have obtained, in writing, cause [rights] or permission [to reproduce this work] from the aforementioned Giulio, or his heirs or successors – may print a volume of this kind or, it having been printed elsewhere, sell it or hold it out for sale, in Rome or in all of our Ecclesiastical state, provided that it will have been examined and approved by the Master of the Sacred Palace [censor],
[15-26] prohibiting therefore – under [penalty] of five hundred ducat of gold of the Treasury, one part for our same Apostolic Treasury, and one part for the accuser and executing judge, and the remaining third to the aforementioned Giulio or his heirs, and aforementioned successors of the applicants, and [under penalty of] other punishments of our judgment – all men, individuals of both sexes, believers of Christ, especially the printers of books, and booksellers, from printing, or selling in print, or having or holding out for sale in any way, during the aforementioned remaining decade, a book of this kind, or any part of this work or volume, both in part as in whole page, or other parts in any manner, in Rome and in the entire Ecclesiastical state, without the special permission of the aforementioned Giulio, or of his aforementioned representatives [stating that] he may do so,
[27-32] commanding therefore our blessed sons – legates, vicelegates, governors, praetors, and other ministers of justice – that when, and as often as, they may be sought on behalf of Giulio or his aforementioned heirs, they must – assisting in the vindication of a defense effective in these decrees – bring it about, by our authority, that the present guarantees are observed precisely and that the aforementioned punishments are executed scrupulously against violators,
[32-35] notwithstanding constitutions and apostolic ordinances and statutes and customs, privileges, as well as indulgences and apostolic letters to the contrary in whatever way conceded, strengthened, and renewed, and other contrary [forces] of whatever sort.
[35-39] We wish moreover that [credit] may attach to the copies of these [decrees], then to the printed [copies], fortified by the hand of a notary public and by the seal of some person established in Ecclesiastical dignity, and [that] the same credit [may attach] to the present decrees themselves, both in court and outside court.
[39] Given at Rome at S. Mark’s under the ring of the Fisherman on October 6th, 1593. In the second year of our papacy. M. Vestrius Barbianus.
Translation of Annotations
To the Holiness of Our Lord For Giulio Burchioni Bookseller
Desiring to have printed a book of carving composed by [name unclear], and reviewed by the Master of the Sacred Palace, he begs for a Privilege so that no one for ten years may print or sell it being that he has undertaken the expenses
To Jacomo so that he makes the record and so that I will review it
To Monsignor Marcantonio so that he will be willing to do it as soon as possible
To Monsignor Jacomo [xxx] so that he reviews this record
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Handwritten Privilege
[12r]
Clemens Papa vii
- Ad futuram Rei memoriam. Cum sicut nobis accepimus quod exponi fecit dilectus filius Iulius
- Burchionius bibliopxxxxxx in urbe librum vulgari idiomate compositum
- vulgo nuncupat il Trinciante di Vincenzo Cervio, et di Reale Fusoritto
- nuncupat multis additionibus et figuris ornatum [ac novissime auctum cum dialogo euisdem Realis vulgo il Maestro de Casa] typis condi facere
- intendit. Nos eum specialibus favoribus et gratiis prosequi vo=
- lentes. motu proprio et ex certo scientia maturaque deliberatione supplicationis eius nomine nobis super hoc humiliter porrectis inclinati
- nobis. dicto Iulio ut durante decennio proximo a prima cuiusque
- operis seu voluminis praesentis editione computando, nullus praeter
- eo qui a dicto iulio, vel suis heredibus ac accendibus causam vel
- licentiam in scriptis haberent volumen huiusmodi, dummodo
- tamen a dilecto filio Magistro Sacri Palatii examinatum et
- approbatum fuerit in Alma Urbe, totaque statu ecclesiastico nostris
- imprimere, aut alibi impressum vendere, au venale
- habere vel proponere possit auctoritate apostolica tenore praesentium
- concediums et indulgemus. Inhibentes propterea sub quin=
- gentorum ducatorum auri de Camera pro una ipsi Camerae nostrae apostolicae
- et pro alia accusatori, et Iudici exequenti et pro reliqua tertiis
- partibus dicto Iulio aut suis heredibus, ac successoribus praefatis applican=
- dorum, ac aliis arbxxx nostri poenis omnibus et singulis utriusque
- sexus christifidelibus praesertim vero bibliopolis ac librorum impres=
- soribus ne dicto durante decennio librum seu volumen huiusmodi
- aut quamcumque ipsius operis seu volumnis partem tam in parvo quam
[12v]
- in magno folio aut alias quomodocumque in Urbi totoque statu ecclesiatico
- praefatis sine speciali dicti Iulii aut suorum praefatorum licentia, ut praefatur in
- scriptis obsenta imprimere, aut impressa vendere seu venali
- habere, vel tenere quoquomodo audeant seu praesumant.
- Mandantes propterea dilectis filiis Legaris, Vicelegatis, Gubernat=
- oribus, Praetoribus, ac aliis Iustitiae Ministriae, ut quando et quoties
- pro parte dicti Iulii seu suorum praefatorum fuerint requisiti, ei in praemissis
- efficacis defensionis praesidio assistentes, faciant auctoritate nostra
- eadem praemissa inviolate observari, ac in contravenientes, praefatas poenas
- praefatas irremissibiliter exequentes. Non obstantibus constitutionibus et
- ordinationibus apostolicis, ac statutis, et consuetudinibus, privilegiis
- quoque indultis et literis apostolicis in contrarium quomodolibet concessis
- confirmatis et innovatis caeterisque contrariis quibusubcunque. Volumus
- autem ut praesentium transumptis etiam impressis manu Notarii publici
- et sigillo alicuius persona in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae
- munitis eademque praesentibus ipsis fides ubique in iudicio, et extra
- adhibeatur. Dat Romae apud S. Marcum s[ub annulo piscatoris] die vi Octobris 1593 anno 2
M. Vestrius Barbianus
Annotations
[14v]
Alla Santità di N/ro Sig/re
Per
Giulio Burchioni Libraro
Desiderando far stam-
pare un libro di Trin-
ciante composto da Valen
termini , et revisto dal
Mro di Sacro Palazzo,
Sup/ca per Privilegio
che nessuno p{er} dieci anni lo
possa stampare ne
vendere, essendoche
egli fa [xxx] la spesa.
A Jacomo che
faccia far
la minuta e
che la rivedaro
A M Marcant/o che
si contenti farla quanto
prima
A M Jacomo
[xxx] che
riveda q{uest}/a
minuta