Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  completeness: 1
  copyFeatures: 'Imperfect: quire π⁴, sheets q4 and C4, and leaves gg4 and ff6 wanting; quire π and leaf gg4 supplied in facsimile; leaf a1 remargined and mounted on a stub; leaves n4 and Q1 torn and repaired. Initial space on a1r not filled in. '
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  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - Record created by Noah Sheola.
  holdingInstitutionId: HarvardHoughton
  hostItemId: ij00150000
  paperSizeHeight: 285
  paperSizeWidth: 202
  provenance:
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          dates: 1810-1873
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Curzon, Robert'
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      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      bindingDate: w
      bindingNote: '19th-century calf, rebacked, with the arms of Robert Curzon, baron Zouche, stamped in gilt on the covers; '
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: d
      gauffered: d
      note: 'Arms of Robert Curzon, baron Zouche, stamped in gilt on the covers; '
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2640620
          name: Parham
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        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1873
        start: 1850
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: b
      type:
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      writingOnEdges: d
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1895 - '
          name: 'London, Maggs Bros.'
          ownerId: 3961
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: "Mounted to front flyleaf is a two-page typewritten description of this copy, as well as a clipping from Maggs Bros. Bibliotheca incunabulorum ; a collection of books printed before 1501 from the presses of England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland (London, 1921),  with Richardson's manuscript note, \"Maggs, 1921\" (printed price of £475 crossed out, \"iiii-vii-v\" in manuscript)."
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          name: London
      source:
        - a
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1921
        start: 1915
      type:
        - a
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1859 - 1951'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Richardson, William King'
          ownerId: 3744
          professionOrType:
            - law
          role: R320
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      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: Bookplate of William King Richardson; his ms. acquisition notes.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4930956
          name: Boston
      priceAmount: 475
      priceCurrency: Pounds sterling
      priceNote: "Printed price of £475 crossed out on clipped bookseller's catalogue mounted to front flyleaf, \"iiii-vii-v\" in manuscript."
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1951
        start: 1921
      type:
        - e
        - m
    - acquisitionMethod: c
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1636-
          name: Harvard College Library
          ownerId: 3523
          professionOrType:
            - uni
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: 1951—Bequest of William King Richardson.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      source:
        - c
      timeperiod:
        start: 1951
      type:
        - e
  shelfmark: WKR 1.3.4
  source: Walsh 3993
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  history:
    - date: 2016-04-29T16:28:30
    - date: 2016-04-29T16:32:07
    - date: 2016-06-02T19:30:09
    - date: 2016-06-02T19:31:26
    - date: 2016-06-02T20:47:14
    - date: 2016-07-19T15:50:13
    - timestamp: 2017-05-28T07:42:14
    - timestamp: 2017-05-28T07:45:01
    - date: 2020-11-27T19:41:15