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DISPLAY AND ADVERTISEMENT OF PRIVILEGES
I 5 2 5j S)? even including in at least one case, the method by which
enterinement of the royal Letters Patent was sealed at the prevote (CH 1524, 2).
The way Letters Patent issued by the prevote itself were sealed was occa-
sionally described (e.g. PR 1520, 9). The presence of the royal seal is
sometimes specifically mentioned in the Latin paraphrases or summaries of
privileges given by Badius and others (e.g; 'sub poena contenta in diplomate
authentico super ea re legitime consignato', CH 1524, i ; 'ut patentibus litteris
sigillo regiae curiae rite munitis liquere protestamur', CH 1511, i). More
often its presence seems to be taken for granted.
The privilege being an official document, issued on royal authority,
whether by the chancery, by one of the Parlements, or by the Prevot of Paris
and other officials of the Crown, printers who possessed a nice woodcut of the
Arms of France with its three lilies were ready to use it in their display of the
privilege. This custom is in no way confined to books ofwhich the content is of
an official or patriotic nature (such as Claude de Seyssel's La grant monarchic de
France, printed and published by Regnault Chaudiere, CH 1519, 6(1) ), but is
attested from 1 509 onwards in books of purely academic or popular interest.
Berthold Rembolt featured the crowned ecu de France over his Parlement
privilege (PA 1509, i) in the commentaries on St Paul attributed to St Bruno;
Philippe Pigouchet, printing for Jean Granjon the Quartus sententiarum of the
philosopher John Mair or Major, showed off the Parlement privilege
(PA 1509, 3) adorned with the ecu de France within the collar of the royal order
of Saint-Michel, with Louis XII's personal emblem of the porcupine added
for good measure. At Lyon, Jean de Vingle printed in 1511 for Jean Robion
and Jean de Clause the treatise De viribus iuramenti of Antonius de Petrutia,
displaying the Arms of France on the title-page above the words 'cum
priuilegio regis', while the Letters Patent are printed on the verso (CH 1511,
2). Other users of the Arms of France in connection with the display of
privileges were Jean de La Garde (e.g. PA 1516, 4: PR 1516, 5), Francois
Regnault (e.g. PA 1516, 5), Enguilbert de Marnef (e.g. CH 1520, 3), and -
very frequently - Galliot Du Pre (see Plate 8). An allusion to the lilies of
France must be seen too in the fine woodcut ofa lily used in conj unction with the
text of a privilege by Jean Granjon (e.g. PA 1514, 9(1))- Guillaume Eustace
had a printer's mark cut for him for use in some of the books which he published
under his personal privilege (e.g. CH 1508, 2(4) ), incorporating the Arms of
France and the words 'Cum gratia et priuilegio regis' (see Plate i, p. 23).
PRIVILEGES PARAPHRASED OR ANNOUNCED IN LATIN, AND
SOME SPECIAL CASES
In 1520, Conrad Resch advertised a three-year privilege on the title of Q.
Asconius Paedianus, Enarrationes on Cicero's orations, and provided a Latin
summary on the verso off. 3 which in fact gave no further details except the
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