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A: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, B: Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Prices that Booksellers Should Charge for Manuscripts

1317 to 1342

The Bolognese statutes of 1317 (repeated in the statutes of 1347) provided a list of prices that booksellers should charge for manuscripts. 

This list of prices, published by Frank Soetermeer, Utrumque ius in peciis: Aspetti della produzione libraria a Bologna fra due e trecento. Oribs academicus: Saggi e documenti di storia delle universita, 8. (Milano, 1997) 314-317, reproduces a list found in Graz, Universitätsbibliothek 363, fol. 1rv.

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