Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  generalNotes:
    - Created by Jack Litchfield
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  hostItemId: in00258000
  location:
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  paperSizeHeight: 232
  paperSizeWidth: 167
  physicalDescriptionNote: Some repairs with partial rebacking and new leather straps for original clasps
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - name: "'T.S.'"
          type: person
      bindingDate: s
      bindingNote: 'Wooden boards with metal bosses, corners, and clasps; three raised bands with black ink pattern, badly faded, over parts of spine and boards'
      bindingStatus: a
      bindingType: c
      boardMaterial: c
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      furniture: 1
      note: 'Verso of first leaf, below woodcut: entwined T and S motif, inked in early hand. '
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1500
        start: 1477
      type:
        - a
        - k
    - agent:
        - name: Anonymous
          type: person
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        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: a
      note: 'On verso of first leaf, descending down left margin of woodcut, black ink inscription in German, ending with place and date of printing'
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1838
        start: 1750
      type:
        - a
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - dates: 1753
          name: British Museum Library
          ownerId: 3442
          professionOrType:
            - mus
          role: R390
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: a
      evidenceDate: 1938
      note: "On recto of first leaf, orange British Museum stamp crossed and annotated 'cancelled, R.G.'; On recto of second leaf, red British Museum stamp [indicating a purchase] this time with both the 'cancelled, R.G.' annotation and also the diamond pencil annotation of the British Museum, which records the acquisition as 30/11/1838/ no. 230 "
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      source:
        - a
      stampsNote:
        - http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/provenanceresearch/provenanceresearch.html
      timeperiod:
        end: 1878
        start: 1838
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        - h
    - agent:
        - dates: 1834-1896
          gender: 1002
          name: William Morris
          ownerId: 3799
          professionOrType:
            - art
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          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
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      note: "Book plate on front pastedown, 'From the library of William Morris/ Kelmscott House/ Hammersmith'"
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        - geonamesId: 3333149
          name: Hammersmith
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1896
        start: 1878
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        - e
    - agent:
        - dates: 1744
          name: Sotheby's
          ownerId: 2381
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R065
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: a
      note: '5 December - 10 December, William Morris Sale [lot. 690, December 8th, sold for 8 GBP]'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      source:
        - g
      timeperiod:
        end: 1898
        start: 1898
      type:
        - s
    - agent:
        - dates: 1853-1936
          gender: 1002
          name: Sir Henry S. Wellcome
          ownerId: 00024361
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk
      certainty: a
      note: 'Wellcome Library accessions book 1916-1930 [WA/HMM/LI/Acc/4], accession no. 5022'
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        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      priceAmount: 8
      priceCurrency: GBP
      priceNote: '[See previous provenance block]'
      source:
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1936
        start: 1898
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        - s
    - agent:
        - dates: 1936
          name: Wellcome Library
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        - areaCode: e-uk
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        - geonamesId: 2643743
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        start: 1936
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  shelfmark: 4.a.5
  source: "F.N.L. Poynter, 'A catalogue of Incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library', London 1954, nr. 537"
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