Liber C, folio 66 recto
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 66r
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
Document-specific information
Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 66r
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of The Merchant of Venice in 1600," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/405.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 66 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/405.
The Merchant of Venice was originally entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on July 22, 1598, and licensed to James Roberts. On October 28, 1600, Roberts legally transferred his publication rights for the play to another London publisher, Thomas Hayes, with another entry in Liber C. After transferring his rights at this time, Roberts printed the first quarto edition of the play for Hayes that same year.
A total of three quarto editions of the play were produced before 1642, and the play was included in the First and Second Folios.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
[This transcription is pending final vetting]
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
1600 42 Regine 66
21. Octobris
mr white Entred for his copie vnder
Warden the handes of mr Harsenett
& mr Dawson warden. A
booke called : Certen lectures
vppon diuerse porcons of scripture
in one Volume by Lewes Thomas . vjd
.23. Octobris
Rich Oliff Entred for his copie by assignement
from ffelix norton A booke called
John Dromes enterteinement as
yt hathe ben Acted by the Children
of Paules . . . . . vjd
Rich Oliffes Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of mr Pasfeild and mr white
Warden A booke called, the
Weakest goethe to the Walles . . . . vjd
28 octobris
Tho. haies Entred for his copie under the
handes of the Wardens & by
Consent of mr Robertes. A
booke called the booke of the
merchant of Venyce . . . . vjd
mr burby Entred for their copie vnder
Wa. burre the handes of mr Harsnet and the
Wardens. A booke called
Sommers last Will and testament
presented by Will Sommers . . . . vjd
3 nov
hughe Astley Entred for his copies in full Court holden
this day. These viij copies folowinge
savynge the right of euery man that hath right iiijs
viz
The Art of navigation by Martin Curtis
The safegard of Saylers
The newe Attractyue
The patheway to saluation
The godly exhortac to England
The poore mans rest
The newe Invencon of Arithmetique
The garden of muses
Sources
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94), 3:175.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "The Merchant of Venice (The Jew of Venice)," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1047. The Merchant of Venice," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 341-46.
Last updated February 8, 2020
