Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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data:
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - 'Title from explicit on leaf [G5] recto. '
    - 'The Karlsruhe copy has a purchase inscription dated April 1472. Rhodes describes additional printing in red on leaf [b1a]. '
    - 'Text in two columns. '
    - 'Spaces left blank for initials. '
    - 'Signatures:  [a²; b¹⁰ c¹⁰⁺¹ (+c6*:Cu[m] [ergo] iam xv. dieb[us] a[n]te pascha[m] ecc[lesi]a[m] b[ea]ti st[ephana]e · freque[n]tantes") d-i¹⁰ k¹⁰⁺¹ (+k8*: unde cum iudei ad capiendum [christu]m pergerent) l-q¹⁰ r⁸ (+r6*: Sed quia multa adulteria in hijs uigi=/lijs fiebant; r8 [blank ?] cancelled) s¹⁰⁺¹ (+s7*: cur no[n] velit incorruptam a putredinis seruare fetore) t-z¹⁰ A-F¹⁰ G⁶] '
    - 'Additional single leaves [k8*] and [r6*] consisting of one column of text on recto only. '
    - "[Table of rubrics], [a1]r-[a2]r;  [printer's register], [a2]v;  Jacobus de Voragine. Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, [b1]r-[G5]r, including prologue, [b1]. "
    - 'BM 15th cent., I, 71 '
    - 'BN cat. des incun., J-61 '
    - 'BSB-Ink, I-64  (with digital facsimile) '
    - 'Copinger, 6393 '
    - 'Goff, J81 '
    - 'GW, M11299  (with digital facsimile) '
    - 'ISTC, ij00081000 '
    - 'Oates, 115 '
    - 'Leaves [e1]-[e2] and their conjoints [e9]-[e10] transposed by binder; additional leaf [k8*] in the life of S. Jacobus misbound after leaf [i7] in the life of S. Ambrosius; leaf [o5] or [o6] is a cancel; additional leaf [s7*] misbound before [s7]. '
    - 'Wanting first conjoint leaves [a1]-[a2] (table of contents) and last blank leaf [G6]. '
    - '[289] leaves ;'
    - 'Original item identifier in source database: 5533353'
  holdingInstitutionCollection: Inc.2-7
  holdingInstitutionId: CambridgeUL
  hostItemId: ij00081000
  location:
    point: {}
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          name: Cambridge University Library
          ownerId: 3463
          professionOrType:
            - lib
          role: R390
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      bindingNote: 'Parchment over pasteboards, France, 18th century;  bookblock edges painted blue, 16th [?] century.'
      certainty: a
      decorationNote: 'Large initial with reserved and pen-flourished decoration in red on leaf [b1] recto, initials, some with reserved decoration, rubrics and highlighting of printed capitals in red throughout, all supplied by hand, France, Strasbourg [?], 1470s [?].'
      msNote: 'A few marginal manuscript notes in cursive hands, late 15th century.  A manuscript table of contents in two columns in cursive hand on recto and verso of first upper free endpaper, France, 18th [?] century.'
      note: "Stamp ' Confrérie de St. Jean l'Évang[eliste] / Non nobis domine' in red on leaves [b1] recto and [G7] recto, probably the stamp of an unidentified French branch of the Hospitallers of St John the Evangelist, France, 18th or 19th century.  Marked 'N9' on upper pastedown and 'No. 11 [crossed away and substituted by 14]' and '6' on verso of second lower free endpaper, all in pencil.  Bought at Sotheby's, 17 December 1894, lot 806."
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2653941
          name: Cambridge
  shelfmark: 'Inc.3.A.2.3[88]'
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  context:
    - _cam
  history:
    - timestamp: 2017-04-30T12:00:00Z