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_id: 00203091
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data:
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - 'BodInc-Id: J-022(1)'
  holdingInstitutionId: OxfordBodley
  hostItemId: ij00072000
  location:
    point: {}
  otherIdentifier:
    - identifier: tij00072000
      source: uktextinc
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - dates: ' - 1660'
          name: 'Thiel, Casparus van (d.1660)'
          note: "Dutch; also owned BSB-Ink R-256 and MMW 4 B 6, both of which have Thiel's inscription: 'Door eijghen weijsheyt leef ick in blyheijt' ('Due to my own wisdom/celerity [Dutch word-play], I am living in joy') (ex informatione Dr Jos van Heel), a variant of which appears in the Bodleian Library book."
          ownerId: 00014545
          type: per
      note: "Provenance: Casparus van Thiel (†1660); inscription on the front pastedown: 'Casparus van Thiel | door eijghen vrijheijt | Leef ich in Blijheyt | A° 1639.' "
      timeperiod:
        end: 1700
    - agent:
        - dates: '1773 - 1843'
          name: Augustus Frederick (1773-1843); Duke of Sussex
          note: 'see DNB; Roger Fulford, Royal Dukes: The Father and Uncles of Queen Victoria (London, 2000), 252-80; Bibliotheca Sussexiana. Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of... the Late Duke of Sussex... (London: R. H., T. and C. Evans, 25 June, 1 July, 31 July, and 12 Aug. 1844; 30 Jan., 22 Apr., 11 Aug. 1845; 20 Apr. 1846). According to annotations in the British Library copy of the sale catalogue, items acquired by the Bodleian were bought through Thomas Rodd; on the sale see also Munby, Phillipps Studies, IV 15-16 and de Ricci. On the library see also Mollie Gillen, Royal Duke: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843) (London, 1976), 175-9.'
          ownerId: 00011275
          type: per
      note: "Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark 'III.A.k.12': see Lee, Royal Book-plates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 5534."
      timeperiod:
        end: 1900
        start: 1701
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1602 -
          name: 'Oxford, Bodleian library'
          ownerId: 4209
          professionOrType:
            - uni
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2640729
          name: Oxford
  shelfmark: Auct. 2Q 1.19.
meta:
  context:
    - _b15
    - _oxbod
  history:
    - timestamp: 2016-06-22T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-04-10T18:00:00Z