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Venetian printing privileges
240Printing privileges 1492–1526
Key point
In Fulin's documents there are 240 printing privileges in 1492–1526, 73 (30%) of them to authors, editors or translators. By five-year period the most are in 1495–1499 (61) and the fewest in 1510–1514 (16).
- Definition
- Documents in Fulin's collection (1469–1526) that grant a printing privilege (an exclusive right to print, sell or use a type), per year and by type of beneficiary.
- Formula
- privilege documents per year, split author / printer
- How to read it
- By five-year period the most are in 1495–1499 and the fewest in 1510–1514; numbers rise again after 1515.
- Caveats
- Fulin collected the documents that survive; he notes that not every privilege granted left a record.
Table
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| Year | Privileges | Author | Printer | Terms stated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1469 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1470 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1471 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1472 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1473 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1474 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1475 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1476 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1477 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1478 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1479 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1480 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1481 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1483 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1484 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1485 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1486 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1487 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1488 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1489 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1490 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1491 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1492 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 1493 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 1494 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 16 |
| 1495 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| 1496 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 10 |
| 1497 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 4 |
| 1498 | 15 | 1 | 13 | 9 |
| 1499 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| 1500 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
| 1501 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 1502 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| 1503 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 5 |
| 1504 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 1505 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 1506 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 1507 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1508 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1509 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 1510 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1511 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1512 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 1513 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1514 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 1515 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 1516 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1517 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1518 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1519 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1520 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1521 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 1522 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1523 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 1524 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 1525 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1526 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
sampledReliability card
Rule-based classification: assigned by word rules; below, the precision measured on an independently coded sample
- Fulin recoding, privilege or not
- 40/40 (100%, 95% CI 91–100%)
- Fulin recoding, term
- 40/40 (100%, 95% CI 91–100%)
- Fulin recoding, beneficiary type
- 37/40 (92%, 95% CI 80–97%)
Prior results
- 254 Venetian printing privileges 1492–1526, 79 of them (about 30%) to authors. — Kostylo (2010), nn. 17–19, from Fulin (1882).
Sources
- Rinaldo Fulin, 'Documenti per servire alla storia della tipografia veneziana', Archivio Veneto 23 (1882), documents 1–256 (1469–1526), Internet Archive
ArchivioVeneto23OCR. Whether a document is a privilege, its term and the beneficiary type were coded document by document under a codebook fixed before coding. (public domain, 1882; https://archive.org/details/ArchivioVeneto23)