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  completeness: 1
  copyId: 02012695
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - Created by Sabrina Minuzzi
  holdingInstitutionId: LondonWellcomeLibrary
  hostItemId: ih00486000
  paperSizeHeight: 295
  paperSizeWidth: 201
  physicalDescriptionNote: "Title pages of 'Ortus sanitatis' (collective one), 'De avibus', 'De urinis' and leaf ee2 in facsimile."
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - unk
          gender: 1003
          name: Anonymous
          ownerId: 3504
          role: R390
          type: person
          typeOrProfession:
            - unk
      area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: a
      decorationNote: "Seven-line pen initial 'O', set in a square frame, decorated with stylized acanthus leaves; all around pen flourishes. All other initials supplied in red."
      hasOramentalLetters: true
      hasPenInitials: true
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1600
      type:
        - l
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - unk
          gender: 1003
          name: Anonymous
          role: R390
          type: person
          typeOrProfession:
            - unk
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: a
      decorationNote: 'A few hand-coloured woodcuts (green, brown and yellow).'
      hasIllustrationsByHand: true
      hasMsComments: true
      hasMsSupplements: true
      hasMsTranslations: true
      msLocation: c
      msNote: "Plenty of English marginalia on 'De erbis', mostly translating the plant names from latin and suggesting vernaculas synonims."
      source:
        - ab
      timeperiod:
        end: 1700
        start: 1601
      type:
        - m
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1850 - 1917'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Leighton, Walter James <bookbinder and antiquarian; book collector>'
          ownerId: 2742
          role: R390
          type: person
          typeOrProfession:
            - bkt
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      bindingDate: x
      bindingNote: 'Late 19.-early 20. century binding with gilt dentelle turn-ins; plates of blind tooled leather (rhombus decoration, stylized leaves and flowers); gilt-stamped spine title; gilt edges.'
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: a
      furniture: 0
      gauffered: d
      note: 'The incunabulum belonged to the personal library of Ms. W.J. Leighton, and was sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on 13 May 1919, see its description in v. 33 (1919) of Book Prices Current, p. 359.'
      place:
        - name: London
      source:
        - ae
      timeperiod:
        end: 2000
        start: 1801
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: c
      type:
        - n
      writingOnEdges: d
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - dates: '1936 - '
          name: 'Wellcome Library <London>'
          ownerId: 3808
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: a
      note: "Bought by the Wellcome library for 42 pounds, see Accession Register' April 1916-May 1930, nr. 45156."
      place:
        - name: London
      priceAmount: 42
      priceCurrency: Pounds
      source:
        - af
      timeperiod:
        start: 1901
      type:
        - n
  shelfmark: 3.d.10
  source: "F.N.L. Poynter, 'A catalogue of Incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library', London 1954, nr. 306."
  supportMaterialBook: b
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  context:
    - _b15
  history:
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T11:49:26Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T12:03:43Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T12:07:43Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T12:24:07Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T13:13:53Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T13:35:39Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T13:53:18Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T14:04:40Z
    - timestamp: 2015-06-15T16:52:37Z
    - date: 2019-10-31T17:22:37
    - date: 2019-11-01T16:03:30