[DCRM-L] Leader 008: Gov't Pub.

[Jessie Sherwood]

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 *Oxford Companion
to the Book* has entries on privileges and censorship.

Not all art in the Middle Ages was church sponsored (some of it was even
produced by and for non-Christians).

Regards,
Jessie

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 12:34, Melissa Harris <melissa at osgf.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 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.
> Thank you for your intelligence on this.
>
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