<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Avec approbation & privilege du roi would indicate that the printer/publisher had the right to print/publish a particular book and that said book had cleared the censors, not that the book in question was published by or for the government. If memory serves the <i>Oxford Companion to the Book</i> has entries on privileges and censorship.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Not all art in the Middle Ages was church sponsored (some of it was even produced by and for non-Christians).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Jessie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 12:34, Melissa Harris <<a href="mailto:melissa@osgf.org">melissa@osgf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hi,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am wondering what the consensus is on labeling bibliographic records as a government publication when they are published: "Avec
Approbation & Privilege du Roi," and when they are created by royal academies, or by request of the royal leadership or government? It would seem that nearly everything would be deemed a government publication during certain epochs, sort of like all art being church-sponsored during the Middle Ages. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you for your intelligence on this. <br></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, serif"><font color="#38761d"><b><span style="font-size:12.8px">Melissa J. Harris,</span> MLIS, MA</b></font><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666" face="garamond, serif">Library Database and Catalogue Specialist</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="1" color="#999999">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" color="#38761d" size="2"><b>Oak Spring Garden Foundation</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="tel:(540)%20592-7068" value="+15405927068" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">540-592-3284</a></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1776+Loughborough+LaneUpperville,+VA&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">1776 Loughborough Lane</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1776+Loughborough+LaneUpperville,+VA&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Upperville, VA 20184</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#666666" face="garamond, serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.osgf.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.OSGF.org</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="1" color="#666666"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OakSpringGardenFoundation/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/oak_spring" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oakspringgardenfoundation/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img></a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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