Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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data:
  completeness: 1
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - 'A more precise collation than that given by BMC (including the 2-leaf table of rubrics at the front) is:  [1²; 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(7+1) 4-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰(8+1) 11-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰(±6) 15-16¹⁰ 17⁸(6+1;-8); 18¹⁰(±2;7+1) 19-29¹⁰ 30⁶; 30/6 blank]. Leaves 10/8+1 and 17/6+1 are half-size leaves consisting of 1 column of text on recto, with verso blank. These were machined as folio half-sheets, with the blank portion used as a binding stub (visible after 10/2 and 17/2).'
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionId: HarvardHoughton
  hostItemId: ij00081000
  paperSizeHeight: 315
  paperSizeWidth: 222
  physicalDescriptionNote: Lacks the 2-leaf table of rubrics at front and final blank leaf.
  provenance:
    - area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: b
      place:
        - name: Germany?
      rubricationDate: 15th century
      rubricationNote: 'Initials, chapter titles, and capital strokes added in red; ms. incipits on 2/1r (= BMC [a]1r); half-leaf 17/6+1 has ms. chapter title on verso. -- Ms. quiring, partly trimmed away.'
      timeperiod:
        end: 1500
        start: 1471
      type:
        - l
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1829 - 1912'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Hodgkin, John Eliot'
          note: Engineer
          ownerId: 4718
          role: R390
          type: person
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '- 1879'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Shimmin, Hugh'
          ownerId: 3106
          role: R110
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      bindingDate: w
      bindingNote: "Bound by Hugh Shimmin of Liverpool in 19th-century black morocco over bevelled boards, stamped in blind and gilt to a 16th-century design; Shimmin's stamp in blind on front turn-in. -- Rebacked, with additional repairs and other conservation work, in 1987 by Brown Conservators (typescript note mounted on rear free endpaper)."
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: d
      furniture: 0
      gauffered: d
      note: "Hodgkin's ms. notes on a printed form with heading \"Adnotatio\"  and his monogram on rear pastedown; also described in his \"Rariora\" (London, 1902), v. 2, pp. 92-93; no. 1561 in the catalogue of the Sotheby sale of his library, May 1914 (sold for £3-5-0 to P. Mordaunt Barnard [annotated copy of the catalogue at Harvard])."
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2639389
          name: Richmond
      timeperiod:
        end: 1912
        start: 1860
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: c
      type:
        - k
      writingOnEdges: d
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1868 - 1941'
          name: 'Barnard, Percy Mordaunt (1868-1941)'
          ownerId: 00011341
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: "Mordaunt's ms. description of the volume mounted on front free endpaper, with price £10-0-0; he is also recorded as the purchaser of the volume at the sale of Hodgkin's library, May 1914 (annotated copy at Harvard), for £3-5-0."
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2639022
          name: Tunbridge Wells
      priceAmount: 3/5/0
      priceCurrency: pounds sterling
      source:
        - a
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1915
        start: 1914
      type:
        - m
        - n
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1636-
          name: Harvard Library
          ownerId: 3523
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: 'Bought with the Charles Eliot Norton fund, accessioned 20 April 1915.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        start: 1915
      type:
        - e
  shelfmark: Inc 278
  source: Walsh 90
meta:
  context:
    - _chl
  history:
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T15:58:52Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:01:43Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:19:18Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:21:46Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:33:32Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:34:07Z
    - timestamp: 2013-05-24T16:40:02Z
    - date: 2017-01-31T22:46:09
    - date: 2017-10-17T02:06:46