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OWNERSHIP, ENFORCEMENT, EFFICACY
Galliot Du Pre obtained a privilege on 4 September 1512 for Joannes
Franciscus de Pavinis, De ojficio etpotestate capituli sede vacante, and other works
on Canon and Civil Law (PA 1512, 8). The grant was for two years. It thus
expired on 3 September 1 5 1 4. By 1 1 5 6 an edition in the same format had come
out, published by Francois Regnault (BL 497^.5).
Barthelemy Verard published the first edition of a French translation of
Petrarch's Trionfi with a privilege for three years reckoned from 23 May 1514
(PA 1514, 7) and due therefore to expire 22 May 1517. By 9 June 1519 it had
been reprinted, in the same format, by Jean de La Garde (BN Res.Yd 80),
followed in 1520 by an edition from Hemon Le Fevre (BN Res.Yd 82).
On 9 November 1514 Guillaume Eustace published works by Le Chevalier
de la Tour Landry and others. This was covered by his personal privilege,
which was for two years (CH 1508, 2 (15)) for every new book that he should
publish. The rights in this book therefore lapsed on 8 November 1516. Michel
Le Noir reprinted it, in a different format, on 4 February 1517 (BL 0.10398).
for the revised edition ofJohn Mair's
Jean Granjon obtained a privilege
Summule (PA 1516, 9). It ran for three years, reckoned from 24 October 1516.
It thus expired on 23 October 1519. By 12 October 1520 it had been reprinted
at Caen by Laurent Hostingue, for Jean Petit of Paris and Michel Angier of
Caen. 1
Michel Angier seems indeed to have been on the lookout for items of
interest published in Paris to reprint as soon as the privilege expired.
Occasionally he made additions which gave the reprint itself a claim to a
privilege. Galliot Du Pre published Alain Bouchart, Les grandes cronicques de
Bretaigne, under a privilege dated 6 May i5i4(CH 1514, i). The grant was for
three years, and therefore ran out on 5 May 1517. By lojune 1 5 1 8 Angier had
completed a reprint of it, with additions from Charles VIII to the christening
of the Dauphin at Amboise on 25 April 1518, apparently derived mainly from
printed news-sheets. This reprint was published 'Cum priuilegio' (CP 1518,
3)-
Le violier des histoires rommaines moralisees had a privilege, granted to Jean de
La Garde (CH 1 520, 8). As it was valid for three years, to be reckoned from the
date of publication, which was 6 April 1521, the privilege expired on 5 April
1524. Another publisher, Philippe Le Noir, reprinted the book on 20
September 1525 (BL G.I 7697).
The first French translation of Vigo's recent work on surgery, published at
Lyon in 1525, had a privilege granted to the publishers (CH 1525, i). It was
for four years, and was due to expire on 30 September 1529. The first reprint of
the translation was done in Paris in 1530: the publisher was again Philippe Le
Noir (BN Res.Fol.Td 73 3gA).
The new Ordinationes or synodal statutes of the diocese of Orleans were
1
L. Delisle, Catalogue des livres imprimis ou publies a Caen avant It milieu du iff siecle (Caen, 1903), i,
pp. 219-21.
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