Exempla literarum augustalium quibus comprobatur Ius Familiaritatis Augustalis ac Privilegium, quo cavetur, ne inscio Heroldo, quae scribat aut è tenebris eruat, à quoquam imprimatur

the sacred Roman Empire and our hereditary kingdoms and domains, either by printing or selling books, or by any other reason and manner whatsoever, exercise the book trade, that none of them dare, after the aforementioned works have come to light by your study, for an entire decade, to be counted from the day of the completion of the edition of each, within the borders and limits of the sacred Roman Empire and all our kingdoms and provinces, to reprint in the same or another typeface without your or your printer’s consent, or to give them to be reprinted anywhere, or to bring, sell, or distribute copies printed elsewhere, openly or secretly. Whoever truly shall have done otherwise, and shall have neglected this our interdict, he shall not only be obliged to be deprived of such printed books, which undoubtedly you, the aforementioned HEROLD, or the printer who shall have printed them with your consent, or your heirs, or those having your mandate, will be able to apprehend from him with the aid of the magistrate of that place, or by your own authority, and to claim for yourselves, but also additionally to be fined ten marks of pure gold, to be paid and numbered equally to our or the Imperial treasury, as a punisher of fraud, and to you, HEROLD, or to your printer, or to your heirs, provided, however, that first you shall have sent one or two copies of each work to be published, or already published, to our Latin Imperial Chancery. Therefore, we command