Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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_id: 02144502
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data:
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  electronicReproduction:
    - display: Glasgow Incunabula Project
      note: See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
      url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/i2/
  extDataset: []
  holdingInstitutionId: GlasgowUL
  holdingsNote: Ah-y.8
  hostItemId: ii00164000
  location:
    point: {}
  otherIdentifier:
    - identifier: I2/1
      source: ukgip
  paperSizeHeight: 283
  paperSizeWidth: 199
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - name: 'Pickering & Chatto, Booksellers and publishers.'
          note: Sold Ah-y.8 copy to Ferguson.
          ownerId: 00013829
          type: corporate
        - dates: 1837-1916
          name: 'Ferguson, John'
          note: Acquisition notes in both copies.
          ownerId: 00032540
          type: person
      note: 'Pickering & Chatto, booksellers and publishers, London (firm founded in 1820 by William Pickering, continued by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering, and purchased by Thomas Chatto in 1878): sold book to John Ferguson'
    - agent:
        - dates: 1837-1916
          name: 'Ferguson, John'
          note: Acquisition notes in both copies.
          ownerId: 00032540
          type: person
        - name: University of Glasgow
          note: Current Owner
          ownerId: 00032865
          type: corporate
      note: "John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson's pencil acquisition note \"John Ferguson London 5 March 1898\" on front pastedown and initials of his supplier \"P & C\" [Pickering & Chatto] in pencil on rear pastedown"
    - agent:
        - name: University of Glasgow
          note: Current Owner
          ownerId: 00032865
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-st
      bindingNote: 'Binding of Ah-y.8 copy: 19th-century vellum; green leather title label and gold-tooled bands on spine; red-edged leaves. Size: 289 x 208 mm.'
      decorationNote: 'Decoration in Ah-y.8 copy: three initials supplied in red (in a modern hand?) on a4v.'
      msNote: "Annotations in Ah-y.8 copy: occasional marginal annotations and \"nota\" marks in a 16th-century hand; contents of the Tabula on a4r and a4v given marginal reference numbers in red ink; every tenth leaf foliated in ink in an 18th-century(?) hand;  entire text beginning at a5r, col. 2, given marginal reference numbers in pencil, \"1\"-\"300\", in a 19th-century hand; 19th-century price code \"p/pn/-\", price \"3/10/-\", and bookseller's catalogue reference \"Witchcraft 111\" all in pencil on front free endpaper."
      note: 'University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2648579
          name: Glasgow
    - agent:
        - dates: 1833-1906
          name: 'Claudin, Anatole'
          note: Bookseller.
          ownerId: 00032622
          type: person
      note: 'TODO: unmatched provenance name entry -- manual revision necessary'
  segment: Glasgow Incunabula Project
  shelfmark: Sp Coll Ferguson Ah-y.8
meta:
  context:
    - _glu
  history:
    - date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
    - date: 2023-02-03T08:35:25