Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  copyFeatures: "Bearer type on leaf A1r; A3 missigned B3; colophon date misprinted “Mcccclxxxxii .ij”; a few leaves cropped. Early pen-trials on last leaf.\n\n"
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  descriptionLanguage: eng
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - Record created by Elena Fogolin.
  holdingInstitutionId: SanMarinoHun
  hostItemId: ia01397000
  location:
    point: {}
  paperSizeHeight: 183
  paperSizeWidth: 134
  provenance:
    - area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      bindingDate: w
      bindingDepth: 16
      bindingHeight: 190
      bindingNote: 'Parchment, blind-tooled with diagonal applications of a decorative roll, edges sprinkled blue; MS. spine title. Probably German, second half of the 19th century. '
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      bindingWidth: 140
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: a
      edges: b
      furniture: 0
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1900
        start: 1850
      type:
        - k
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1830 - 1901'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Biltz, Karl Friedrich '
          ownerId: 00026132
          professionOrType:
            - scl
          role: R390
      area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: a
      evidenceDate: 1881
      msNote: 'MS. note on the top right margin of front free flyleaf “Co. Biltz Lurlin [?] 1881.”'
      source:
        - a
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1901
        start: 1830
      type:
        - e
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1871 - 1940'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Breslauer, Martin '
          ownerId: 3798
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-gx
      certainty: a
      note: 'Martin Breslauer, "Das deutsche Lied: geistlich und weltlich bis zum 18ten Jahrhundert" (Berlin, 1908):454; priced at 225 marks. Most of the books in this catalogue came from Biltz.'
      source:
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1940
        start: 1871
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1903-1953
          gender: 1002
          name: Rosenbach Company
          ownerId: 00015333
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-pa
      certainty: a
      note: Quoted by Rosenbach to Henry Huntington along with other incunabula in Dec. 1922 (library files). It is not known when Rosenbach obtained the book.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 4560349
          name: Philadelphia
      source:
        - c
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1922
        start: 1922
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1850-1927
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Huntington, Henry Edwards '
          ownerId: 3291
          professionOrType:
            - bus
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ca
      certainty: a
      note: 'Purchased from Rosenbach, December 1922.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5392400
          name: San Marino
      source:
        - c
        - f
      timeperiod:
        end: 1927
        start: 1922
      type:
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: c
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1927-
          name: The Huntington
          ownerId: 00015692
          professionOrType:
            - lib
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ca
      certainty: a
      note: |-
        Huntington founded the library to house his collection.
        On the front pastedown: bibliographical information and references to incunabula catalogues in pencil.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5392400
          name: San Marino
      source:
        - a
        - b
        - c
      timeperiod:
        start: 1927
      type:
        - a
        - n
  shelfmark: 43535
  source: 'H. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 270.'
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  context:
    - _hunt
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