'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’

The question of whether printing privileges added more to publications than mere financial protection has often been raised in studies of printing privileges in the Dutch Republic. Traditionally, these discussions focus on the relationship between the authorities, printers, and privileged books, bu...

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Main Author: Jacqueline Hylkema
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Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2024-12-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/20824
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description The question of whether printing privileges added more to publications than mere financial protection has often been raised in studies of printing privileges in the Dutch Republic. Traditionally, these discussions focus on the relationship between the authorities, printers, and privileged books, but what can the books that violated printing privileges tell us about the matter? This article offers a first exploration of the relationship between printing privileges, authority, and two different kinds of forgery (counterfeit and creative forgery) printed in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. The counterfeits of Jacob Cats’s Self-Stryt (1620) and the States Bible confirm that the authority of the States-General and the sense of official endorsement printing privileges added to a publication indeed played a role in the discourse of counterfeits in the Dutch Republic. But did this sense of endorsement make printing privileges an attractive tool in the publication of creative forgeries? It appears that the role of printing privileges was limited in this genre, but the possible reasons behind this are relevant too in the context of the relationship between authority and printing privileges.
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spelling doaj-art-10eceb0b92914902be378b95349f3eab2025-01-09T08:42:44Zengopenjournals.nlEarly Modern Low Countries2543-15872024-12-018210.51750/emlc20824'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’Jacqueline Hylkema0Leiden University The question of whether printing privileges added more to publications than mere financial protection has often been raised in studies of printing privileges in the Dutch Republic. Traditionally, these discussions focus on the relationship between the authorities, printers, and privileged books, but what can the books that violated printing privileges tell us about the matter? This article offers a first exploration of the relationship between printing privileges, authority, and two different kinds of forgery (counterfeit and creative forgery) printed in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. The counterfeits of Jacob Cats’s Self-Stryt (1620) and the States Bible confirm that the authority of the States-General and the sense of official endorsement printing privileges added to a publication indeed played a role in the discourse of counterfeits in the Dutch Republic. But did this sense of endorsement make printing privileges an attractive tool in the publication of creative forgeries? It appears that the role of printing privileges was limited in this genre, but the possible reasons behind this are relevant too in the context of the relationship between authority and printing privileges. https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/20824printing privilegesforgerycounterfeitsauthoritybook history
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'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
Early Modern Low Countries
printing privileges
forgery
counterfeits
authority
book history
title 'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
title_full 'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
title_fullStr 'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
title_full_unstemmed 'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
title_short 'Goet, Origineel, ende Autentijcq’
title_sort goet origineel ende autentijcq
topic printing privileges
forgery
counterfeits
authority
book history
url https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/20824
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