Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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          name: 'Anonymous annotator, Italy'
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      msNote: 'On fo. 7r, some manuscript notes in light brown ink written by a 15th century Italian hand, including brackets, extraction of keywords and translation of abbreviations, most marginalia cropped away by later binder.'
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      msNote: "On fo. 2r, manuscript note in light brown ink written by a 16th century Italian hand: 'Phisica de Coelo et Mundo, de Generatione et Corruptione [?] | Alb. Magn. Some marginal notes and maniculae, cropped away by later binder."
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          dates: '1887 - 1963'
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          name: 'Wolff, Kurt'
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      bindingDate: x
      bindingDepth: 27
      bindingHeight: 317
      bindingNote: 'Early 20th century, modern vellum on pasteboards or wood with clasps. Author and imprint on the spine in dark brown ink. Edges coloured in blue ink. Printed texts in the inner margin cropped away by the binder. This book, probably, was rebound for Wolff himself.'
      bindingStatus: b
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      msNote: 'On front pastedown, modern pencil manuscript notes, in German, mentioning some bibliographic references, probably written by Kurt Wolff himself.'
      note: On front pastedown  German printed label describing the history of the book.
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          name: München
      source:
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1926
        start: 1900
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        - characterisation:
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          name: 'Frankfurt am Main, Joseph Baer & Co., Buchhandlung und Antiquariat'
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      note: Joseph Baer & Co. sold Kurt Wolff incunabula collection in 1926. Sir Henry S. Wellcome obtained 115 books.
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        end: 1926
        start: 1926
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          name: Sir Henry S. Wellcome
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      note: "Bought on 9th/10th Oct. 1926 from the Kurt Wolff collection for 16 pounds and 5 shillings, cf. 'Accession Register' April 1916-May 1930, no. 44756. This price include the actual price paid, the tax (15%) and the insurance in transit (1%)."
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        end: 1936
        start: 1926
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      note: 'Wellcome died in 1936. He bequeathed the bulk of his estate, including ownership of his pharmaceutical company and his collections, to a body of trustees, who formed the Wellcome Trust and afterwards the Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Collection.'
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  source: "F.N.L. Poynter, 'A catalogue of Incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library', London 1954, nr. 20."
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