Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  edit: 0
data:
  completeness: 1
  copyFeatures: 'Lacks leaves d3, k4-5, &5-8, [rum]1, and blank leaves a1 and [rum]10.'
  copyHistory:
    - note: 'Clipped description and facsimile of b1r mounted on front pastedown; item 234 in an unidentified (auction?) catalogue (no price on the clipping, but perhaps clipped away).'
      time: Early 20th century
  copyType:
    - b
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionId: PrincetonUL
  hostItemId: il00008000
  paperSizeHeight: 304
  paperSizeWidth: 203
  provenance:
    - area:
        - areaCode: e-it
      bindingDate: s
      bindingDepth: 53
      bindingHeight: 312
      bindingNote: 'Contemporary Italian blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (rebacked and corners repaired, 17th-18th century, with gilt title label added on spine); marks of clasps, no longer present.'
      bindingStatus: e
      bindingType: c
      bindingWidth: 210
      boardMaterial: c
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      decorationNote: 'Initial on b1r in gold  with red, green, and blue background (with white highlighting) and white-vine decoration, inner marginal extension similarly colored, with gold dots.'
      edges: d
      furniture: 1
      gauffered: d
      hasMsCorrections: 1
      hasMsExtractedKeywords: 1
      hasMsReadingMarks: 1
      hasMsSupplements: 1
      hasOrnamentalLetters: 1
      hasPenInitials: 1
      hasRubrication: 1
      msFrequency: c
      msLocation: c
      msNote: 'Annotations extensive in the first four quires, scattered thereafter.  An incorrect red initial on d1r corrected crudely in black; one in blue on m1r corrected with a small "guide"-style letter.'
      rubricationDate: 15th century
      rubricationNote: 'Other initials and paragraph marks added in alternating red and blue.  Headlines added in red (largely faded or washed) in the first half of the volume only (title on versos, book number on rectos); a small section following the cessation of headlines has book numbers in later black ink, non-scribal, on rectos.'
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1500
        start: 1479
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: c
      type:
        - k
        - l
      writingOnEdges: d
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - ari
          dates: '1810 - 1902'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'St. John-Mildmay, Henry Bouverie Paulet <5th baronet St. John-Mildmay>'
          ownerId: 4404
          professionOrType:
            - pol
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: Bookplate of Dogmersfield library; lot 324 in the April 1907 Sotheby sale catalogue of the Dogmersfield library; sold to Young for £4/15/-.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 7296688
          name: Dogmersfield
      source:
        - a
        - c
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1907
        start: 1825
      type:
        - e
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          name: 'Young, G. A. & Co.'
          ownerId: 00015114
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-st
      certainty: b
      note: '"Young" noted as purchaser at the Dogmersfield sale in an annotated copy of the Sotheby catalogue at the British Library; probably G. A. Young & Co.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2650225
          name: Edinburgh
      priceAmount: 4/15/-
      priceCurrency: pounds sterling
      priceNote: Price recorded in Sotheby annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the British Library.
      source:
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1925
        start: 1907
      type:
        - n
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1884-1962
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Adler, Elmer'
          ownerId: 4732
          professionOrType:
            - ule
          role: R320
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-nj
      certainty: a
      note: Adler's bookplate and ms. notes on front pastedown.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5102922
          name: Princeton
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1945
        start: 1940
      type:
        - e
    - acquisitionMethod: b
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1750-
          name: Princeton University Library
          ownerId: 3530
          professionOrType:
            - uni
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-nj
      certainty: a
      note: Gift of Elmer Adler; date uncertain.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5102922
          name: Princeton
      source:
        - a
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      timeperiod:
        start: 1945
      type:
        - e
  shelfmark: 2874.1479q
  supportMaterialBook: a
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    - _pri
  history:
    - date: 2016-07-11T12:00:01
    - date: 2016-07-11T12:03:35
    - date: 2016-07-11T12:03:57
    - date: 2016-07-12T17:15:21
    - date: 2016-07-12T17:47:21
    - date: 2016-07-12T17:58:22