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THE
CRITERION OF NEWNESS
publique estre observez et entretenuz' (CH 1517, 3) in the Coutumes generalles,
which was virtually an official publication. There are none of the grandilo-
quent phrases which begin to appear in Francis I's Letters Patent after his
return from Madrid, e.g. 'Pourquoy nous ces choses considered, desirans de
tout nostre povoir faire florir les bonnes lettres en nostre royaulme et mettre en
evidance . .
.', to be read in the privilege for Rene Bertaut's Le livre dorede Marc
Aurele (1531 4). The privilege granted to Enguilbert de Marnef for Le grant
routtier of Pierre Garcie dit Ferrande (CH 1520, 4) has the phrase 'Pourquoy
nous ces choses considerees, et qui desirons que tous bons livres qui ne furent
to such a
jamais imprimez soient manifestes . . .' This is the nearest approach
statement before 1527.
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