Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionId: HarvardHoughton
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  location:
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  paperSizeHeight: 214
  paperSizeWidth: 158
  physicalDescriptionNote: Lacks leaf EE8.
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          dates: 1491-1500
          name: 'Anonymous binder, Germany'
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          dates: 1491-1500
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          name: 'Anonymous annotator, Germany'
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      bindingDate: s
      bindingNote: 'Contemporary half blind-stamped pigskin and wooden boards, spine repaired (small repair at top); brass clasp plates on back cover, catch-plates on front, clasps and straps not present; ms. title written across fore-edges and bottom edges, and on spine; index tabs.'
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      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: c
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      coverMaterial: b
      edges: d
      furniture: 1
      gauffered: d
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      hasMsReadingMarks: 1
      hasPartialRubrication: 1
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      msLocation: c
      msNote: 'Headlines added at upper right of rectos, in the same hand as marginal annotation (with underlining and manicules); some printed initials also colored in the same brown ink. Astronomical diagram, with annotation in red (brown?) and black, on front pastedown.'
      note: Undeciphered note at head of front free endleaf 1r may include provenance information (date and/or price).
      rubricationDate: 15th century
      rubricationNote: Some underlining added in red.
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        end: 1500
        start: 1491
      titling:
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      type:
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      writingOnEdges: b
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      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1877-1904
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Ridler, William'
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          professionOrType:
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          type: person
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        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: b
      note: Price code on front pastedown "a/a/" may be Ridler's; the price "£3-8-0" may also relate to this provenance. Dates conjectural.
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        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      priceAmount: 3.8.0
      priceCurrency: pounds sterling
      priceNote: Price noted on front pastedown; not the price paid by Ridler.
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1885
        start: 1877
      type:
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    - agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1885-1895
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Anonymous bookseller, England'
          ownerId: 00024336
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: b
      note: Clipped bookseller's description in English on front free endleaf verso; number 2337 in an unidentified catalogue; priced at £12.
      priceAmount: 12
      priceCurrency: pounds sterling
      priceNote: Price at which the book was offered.
      source:
        - a
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1895
        start: 1885
      type:
        - s
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - unk
          dates: 1895-1902
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Anonymous bookseller, Germany'
          ownerId: 00024337
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: a
      evidenceDate: 1902
      note: "Willard's purchase note on title: \"Bot in 1902 @ M. 68\" (i.e. German marks)."
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        - a
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        end: 1902
        start: 1895
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        - p
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1834-1908
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Willard, Joseph'
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          professionOrType:
            - law
          role: R390
          type: person
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      certainty: a
      note: "Willard's purchase note on title page: \"Bot in 1902 @ M. 68\"; lot 904 in the October 1908 sale catalogue of his library (Charles F. Libbie & Co.); sold for $12.50 according to a note on a copy of page 70 clipped from the catalogue."
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          name: Boston
      priceAmount: 68
      priceCurrency: German marks (1902)
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1908
        start: 1902
      type:
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1861 - 1912'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Rotch, Abbott Lawrence'
          ownerId: 4572
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          type: person
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          dates: '1870 - 1941'
          gender: 1001
          name: 'Rotch, Margaret Randolph'
          ownerId: 4573
          professionOrType:
            - unk
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: Harvard bookplate records this copy as "From the books of Abbott Lawrence Rotch ... and Margaret Randolph Rotch." Perhaps purchased at the Willard sale.
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        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      priceAmount: 12.50
      priceCurrency: U.S. dollars
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1942
        start: 1908
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      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          name: Harvard College Library
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          professionOrType:
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          role: R399
          type: corporate
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        - areaCode: n-us-ma
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      note: 'Donor not recorded; given to Harvard in July 1942, "in memory of Professor and Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch."'
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        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
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        start: 1942
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  source: Walsh 631
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    - _chl
  history:
    - date: 2018-07-22T14:56:30
    - date: 2018-07-22T15:23:33
    - date: 2018-07-22T15:25:11