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  copyType:
    - b
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
  holdingInstitutionId: HarvardHoughton
  hostItemId: ib00845000
  paperSizeHeight: 214
  paperSizeWidth: 158
  physicalDescriptionNote: Lacks leaf EE8.
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - unk
          dates: 1491-1500
          name: 'Anonymous binder, Germany'
          ownerId: 00024334
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R110
        - characterisation:
            - unk
          dates: 1491-1500
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Anonymous annotator, Germany'
          ownerId: 00024335
          professionOrType:
            - unk
          role: R020
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      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.'
      bindingStatus: e
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: c
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: d
      furniture: 1
      gauffered: d
      hasMsExtractedKeywords: 1
      hasMsReadingMarks: 1
      hasPartialRubrication: 1
      msFrequency: c
      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.
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1500
        start: 1491
      titling:
        - a
      tooling: a
      type:
        - k
        - l
        - m
      writingOnEdges: b
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1877-1904
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Ridler, William'
          ownerId: 3730
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - 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.
      place:
        - 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:
        - r
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          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)."
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1902
        start: 1895
      type:
        - p
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1834-1908
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Willard, Joseph'
          ownerId: 00015918
          professionOrType:
            - law
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      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."
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4930956
          name: Boston
      priceAmount: 68
      priceCurrency: German marks (1902)
      source:
        - a
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1908
        start: 1902
      type:
        - r
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1861 - 1912'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Rotch, Abbott Lawrence'
          ownerId: 4572
          professionOrType:
            - scl
          role: R390
          type: person
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          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.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      priceAmount: 12.50
      priceCurrency: U.S. dollars
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        end: 1942
        start: 1908
      type:
        - e
    - acquisitionMethod: b
      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: 'Donor not recorded; given to Harvard in July 1942, "in memory of Professor and Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch."'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
      source:
        - a
        - c
      timeperiod:
        start: 1942
      type:
        - e
  shelfmark: Inc 1891
  source: Walsh 631
  supportMaterialBook: a
meta:
  context:
    - _chl
  history:
    - date: 2018-07-22T14:56:30
    - date: 2018-07-22T15:23:33
    - date: 2018-07-22T15:25:11