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  generalNotes:
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionCollection: Cotsen Children's Library
  holdingInstitutionId: PrincetonUL
  hostItemId: ic00297000
  location:
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  paperSizeHeight: 189
  paperSizeWidth: 136
  provenance:
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      bindingHeight: 193
      bindingNote: '17th-century parchment over boards (boards bowed; upper hinge partly split); recased in the 20th century with new endleaves. Ms. title on spine; shelfmarks (?): at center of spine, "4" above "9"; at foot of spine, "9".'
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      note: Early 17th century?
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        start: 1600
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          name: 'Hieber, Placidus'
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          type: person
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      certainty: a
      evidenceDate: 1659
      note: Hieber's initials "P A Z L" (Placidus Abt Zu Lambach) at top of front cover; date "1659" at bottom of front cover.
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          name: Lambach
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        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1678
        start: 1659
      type:
        - k
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1940-
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Schøyen, Martin'
          ownerId: 00010117
          professionOrType:
            - bus
          role: R390
          type: person
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        - areaCode: e-no
      certainty: a
      note: "Bookplate on front pastedown: \"The Schøyen Collection\" with \"INC 45\" added in ms. Sold Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1991."
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          name: Oslo
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        - a
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        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1991
        start: 1976 or earlier
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          gender: 1002
          name: 'Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.'
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          role: R160
          type: person
      certainty: a
      note: McKittrick's description on letterhead laid in the volume.
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          name: Narberth
      source:
        - a
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1991
        start: 1991
      type:
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1929-
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Cotsen, Lloyd'
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          professionOrType:
            - bus
          role: R320
          type: person
      certainty: a
      note: Purchased by Cotsen from McKittrick; donated to Princeton.
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        - geonamesId: 5368361
          name: Los Angeles
      source:
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1995
        start: 1991
      type:
        - n
    - acquisitionMethod: b
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          name: Princeton University Library
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          professionOrType:
            - uni
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          type: corporate
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        - areaCode: n-us-nj
      certainty: a
      note: 'Gift of Lloyd Cotsen, 1995.'
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        - geonamesId: 5102922
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  history:
    - date: 2016-01-02T01:49:22
    - date: 2016-01-02T01:55:36
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