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Privilege granted to Francisco Soto to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian, Rome (1603)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 336 F. 250

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Privilege granted to Francisco Soto to translate, print and distribute works by St. Teresa of Avila from Spanish to Italian, Rome (1603), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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[1-12] holding rights from him or them; and for the rest, the remaining third part to the accuser and the executing judge applied unremittingly; and with the said penalty to be incurred by each [violation] without a separate declaration; so that while the said decade endures, no one as in Rome, so in the rest of the ecclesiastic state, should dare or presume to print in any way the said work without license of this sort from the aforementioned, or whatever part of it, either in large or small folio, even under pretext of subtraction, or addition, , or to sell it once printed by others, or hold it for sale, or advertise it.

[12-17] We order our dear sons, the legates of the Lateran apostolic seat, and their vice-legates, and the presidents, governors, praetors, and other ministers of justice of the provinces, states, lands and places of our ecclesiastic state; to the extent needed by the same Francisco, or his heirs and successors, or those having cause


    

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1. Causami habentibus ac pro reliqua tertiis par=
2. tibus Accusatori, et Iudici exequenti irre=
3. misibiliter applicandis, et eo ipso absque ulla
4. declaratione incurrendis poenis ne dicto
5. durante Decennio librosum praedictosum aut quamlibet
6. illorum partum, tam in magno, quam in parvo folio
7. et praetextu declarationum, sive additone
8. tam in Urbe, quam in reliquo statu Ecclesiastico praedictis
9. sine huiusmodi licentia imprimere, aut ab aliis im=
10. pressos vendere, aut venale habere, seu
11. proponere quoquo modo audeant vel prae=
12. sumant. Mandantes dilectis filiis nostris, et Apostolicae
13. sedis de latere legatis, seu eorum Vicelegatis,
14. aut Praesidentibus, Gubernatoribus, Praetoribus, et aliis
15. Iustitiae Ministris Provinciarum, Civitatum, Terrarum
16. et Locorum status nostri ecclesiastici praesenti, quatenus {eidem} Francisco
17. eiusque haeredibus et successoribus seu ab eis causam

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