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SUMMARY

OF THE IMPERIAL

PRIVILEGE.

BY THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SACRED IMPERIAL MAJESTY, it is cautioned that no engraver, chisel-worker, sculptor, printer, bookseller, or others exercising any book trade, shall presume to imitate, reprint, or bring in from elsewhere to sell, either publicly or secretly, without the will and consent of the aforementioned Doctor HENRICUS KHUNRATH or his heirs, the WORKS of HENRICUS KHUNRATH of Leipzig, Doctor of Medicine—whether written or illustrated, Medicinal, Chemical, Kabbalistic, or many other secret things, partly collected from elsewhere and partly written and invented by himself—and especially the AMPHITHEATRE OF ETERNAL WISDOM, of the sole true, Christian-Kabalistic, Divine-Magic, and Physico-Chemical, three-in-one, catholicon, etc., for a period of ten years, to be calculated from the first day of each edition, within the bounds of the Holy Roman Empire and the hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions of His Majesty, in any similar or other kind of character or form, either in whole or in part. If anyone, by doing otherwise, should attempt to spurn, neglect, or transgress this IMPERIAL Privilege and Interdict by any rash audacity, he shall not only be deprived of all those copies wrongly reprinted and brought in (which the aforementioned HENRICUS KHUNRATH, or his heirs and their agents, may claim for themselves wherever they are found, whether by their own authority, which we grant them in this matter, or with the aid of the local Magistrate), but he shall also be punished irremissibly by a fine of ten marks of pure gold, to be paid equally to the Imperial treasury as a penalty for the fraud, and to the uses of the aforementioned Doctor HENRICUS KHUNRATH and his heirs, etc. At Prague, the first day of JUNE. In the year 1598.

RUDOLPHUS.