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Petition from and Privilege granted to Giulio Burchioni for publishing a combined volume of works on table service and household management, Rome (1593)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 208 F. 12

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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 Printed Privilege

[1] Pope Clement VIII [proclaims the following] for the future memory of the thing.

[1-4] 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;

[4-6] [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;

[6-8] 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,

[8-15] 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],

[15-25] 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 Julius 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,

[25-] 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,

[30-33] 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.

[33-36] 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.

[36-37] 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.



    

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Printed Privilege[1]

CLEMENS PAPA OCTAVUS

  1. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Cum sicut nobis exponi fecit dile=
  2. ctus filius Iulius Burchionius Bibliopola in Urbe librum vulgari
  3. idiomate compositum vulgo il Trinciante di Vincenzo Cervio,
  4. & di Reale Fusoritto nuncupat. multis additionibus, & figuris
  5. ornatum, ac novissime auctum cum dialogo eiusdem Realis vul=
  6. go il Mastro di Casa Typis condi facere intendit. Nos eum
  7. specialibus favoribus, & gratiis prosequi volentes. Supplicationibus eius nomi=
  8. ne nobis super hoc humiliter porrectis inclinati,[2] dicto Iulio, ut durante decennio
  9. proximo, a prima cuiusque operis, seu voluminis praesenti editione computando,
  10. nullus praeter eos, qui a dicto Iulio vel suis haeredibus, ac successoribus, causam
  11. vel licentiam in scriptis habuerint, volumen huiusmodi, dummodo tamen a di=
  12. lecto filio Magistro S.P. examinatum, & approbatum fuerit, in alma Urbe
  13. totoq. statu Ecclesiastico nostris imprimere, aut alibi impressum vendere, aut
  14. venale habere, vel proponere possit, auctoritate Apostolica tenore praesentium
  15. concedimus, & indulgemus. Inhibentes propterea sub quingentorum ducatorum
  16. auri de Camera pro una ipsi Camerae nostrae Apostolicae, & pro alia accusatori
  17. & Iudici exequenti, & pro reliqua tertiis partibus dicto Iulio, aut suis haeredi=
  18. bus, ac successoribus praefatis applicandorum, ac aliis arbitrii nostri poenis,
  19. omnibus, & singulis utriusque sexus Christi fidelibus, praesertim vere Bibliopo=
  20. lis, ac librorum impressoribus, ne dicto durante, decennio librum huiusmodi, aut
  21. quamcunque ipsius operis, seu voluminis partem, tam in parvo quam in magno
  22.  folio, aut alias quomodocunque in Urbe, totoq. statu Ecclesiastico, praefatis sine
  23. specialis dicti Iulii, aut suorum praefatorum licentia, ut praefertur inscriptis ob=
  24. tenta imprimere, aut impressa vendere, seu venalia habere, vel tenere quoque
  25. modo audeant, seu praesumant. Mandantes propterea dilectis filiis Legatis,
  26. Vicelegatis, Gubernatoribus, Praetoribus, ac aliis Iustitiae ministris, ut quando
  27. & quoties pro parte dicti Iulii, seu suorum praefatorum, fuerint requisiti, eis in
  28. praemissis efficacis defensionis praesidio assistentes, fa[c]iant, auctoritate nostra, ea=
  29. dem praemissa inviolate observari, ac in contravenientes praefatas poenas irre=
  30. missibiliter exequantur. Non obstantibus constitutionibus, & ordinationibus
  31. Apostolicis, ac statutis, & consuetudinibus, privilegiis quoque indultis, & literis
  32. Apostolicis in contrarium quomodolibet concessis confirmatis, & innovatis, cae=
  33. terisque contrariis quibuscunque. Volumus autem, ut praesentium transumptis,
  34. etiam impressis, manu Notarii Publici, & sigillo alicuius personae in dignitate
  35. Ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, eademq. praesentibus ipsis fides, ubique in Iudi-
  36. cio & extra adhibeatur. Datum Romae apud S. Marcum sub annulo Pisca=
  37. toris Die vi. Octobris 1593. Pontificatus Nostri Anno Secundo.

M. Vestrius Barbianus

[2] “super hoc….inclinati” omitted in handwritten privilege



    

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