Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  completeness: 1
  copyType:
    - a
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionId: HarvardHoughton
  hostItemId: ii00170000
  location:
    point: {}
  paperSizeHeight: 211
  paperSizeWidth: 157
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - rel
          dates: 1089-
          name: 'Melk, Benedictines, OSB'
          ownerId: 00016174
          professionOrType:
            - rei
          role: R390
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-au
      bindingDate: w
      bindingNote: Half 19th-century white goatskin (or pigskin?)  and marbled boards.  The library is documented as undertaking a restoration and rebinding project in the mid-19th century (1837-1860).
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      furniture: 0
      hasPenInitials: 1
      hasRubrication: 1
      msFrequency: a
      msLocation: a
      msNote: Ms. notes on the title page appear to refer to use of the contents in liturgical settings.
      note: 'Inscriptions on title page: "Monasterij Mellicensis Litt. E 116" and later, "Catalogo Monasterij Mellicensis hunc libr[um] inscripsi".  Also a later shelfmark "P.561". Stamp "Bibliotheca Mellicensis" on title page and colophon.  There are 2 copies of this edition found in the first installment of the catalogue of the monastery’s incunabula (nos. 505-506); no details of binding or other physical evidence are given.   The catalogue appeared in three installments in the annual reports of the monastery (1899-1901), and was then published separately in 1901.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2771682
          name: Melk
      rubricationDate: 15th-early 16th century
      rubricationNote: 'Initials added in red or blue, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red.'
      source:
        - a
        - c
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1925
        start: 1496
      type:
        - a
        - h
        - k
        - l
        - m
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1636-
          name: Harvard College Library
          ownerId: 3523
          professionOrType:
            - uni
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: 21 January 1925—Bought with the John Harvey Treat fund.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        start: 1925
      type:
        - e
  shelfmark: Inc 2104
  source: Walsh 747
  supportMaterialBook: a
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  context:
    - _chl
  history:
    - date: 2017-03-07T02:31:48
    - date: 2017-03-07T02:33:19