Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  copyHistory:
    - note: 'Pencil note at lower left of front pastedown: "A46"; not identifiable with any provenance. Pencil price code at lower left of rear pastedown: "R/T/ "; in a different hand, above and to the right: "L" with double underline, followed by what may be "j"; not identifiable with any provenance.'
      time: Late 19th-early 20th century
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  generalNotes:
    - 'Record created by John Lancaster, with additional Dunn information from William Stoneman.'
  holdingInstitutionCollection: Chapin Library
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          name: 'anonymous rubricator, Germany'
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          dates: 1477-1500
          gender: 1003
          name: 'anonymous annotator, Germany'
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      hasMsExtractedKeywords: 1
      hasMsReadingMarks: 1
      hasPenInitials: 1
      hasRubrication: 1
      msFrequency: a
      msLocation: c
      msNote: Occasional marginal annotations and underlining.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2921044
      rubricationDate: 15th century
      rubricationNote: 'Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining added in red. In the second work (Pseudo-Methodius), each page is outlined in red, close to the outer margin.  On leaf 6/5v, there is set-off of red initials added to a different work (9 instances of capital Q in the margin).'
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        start: 1477
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    - agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1850-1875
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Anonymous binder, England'
          ownerId: 00024284
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R110
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      bindingDate: w
      bindingDepth: 24
      bindingHeight: 207
      bindingNote: 'Modern parchment; title stamped in gold on front cover. Red parchment index tabs, from an earlier binding.'
      bindingStatus: b
      bindingType: c
      bindingWidth: 154
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: a
      edges: d
      furniture: 0
      gauffered: d
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        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1875
        start: 1850
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: b
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1865-1912
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Dunn, George'
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          type: person
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        - areaCode: e-uk
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      note: "Dunn's booklabel (added for the posthumous sale) on front pastedown; his pencil notes on front free endleaf 1r, including date of acquisition \"June 1899\" and price code \"χλ\".  Lot 865 in part 2 of the Sotheby London sale of his library, February 1914. F. Jenkinson, A list of the incunabula collected by George Dunn arranged to illustrate the history of printing (1923), no. 129."
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        - geonamesId: 2655856
          name: Woolley Green (Berkshire)
      source:
        - a
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1912
        start: 1899
      type:
        - e
        - m
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1819 - 1937'
          name: 'London, J. & J. Leighton'
          ownerId: 3536
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Leighton is recorded as the purchaser at the Dunn sale, for £3.10s. Lot 4027 in the 5th part of the Leighton stock sale, Sotheby London, November 1921.'
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        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      priceAmount: 3.10.0
      priceCurrency: GBP
      source:
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1921
        start: 1914
      type:
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: '1914 - 1946'
          name: 'P. J. & A. E. Dobell '
          ownerId: 4681
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Dobell is recorded as the purchaser at the Leighton stock sale, for £7/5/0.'
      place:
        - name: London
      priceAmount: 7.5.0
      priceCurrency: GBP
      source:
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1921
        start: 1921
      type:
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1911-1965
          name: 'James F. Drake, Inc.'
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      note: "Recorded in Drake's bills at the Leighton sale price, £7/5/0.  Sold to Alfred Clark Chapin, 21 December 1921."
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        - geonamesId: 5128581
          name: New York
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        - g
      timeperiod:
        end: 1921
        start: 1921
      type:
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1848-1936
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Chapin, Alfred Clark'
          ownerId: 00016191
          professionOrType:
            - pol
          role: R320
          type: person
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        - areaCode: n-us-ny
      certainty: a
      note: 'Purchased from Drake, 21 December 1921, for $34.75.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5128581
          name: New York
      priceAmount: 34.75
      priceCurrency: U.S. dollars
      source:
        - a
        - c
        - g
      timeperiod:
        end: 1923
        start: 1921
      type:
        - s
    - acquisitionMethod: b
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1793-
          name: 'Williamstown MA, Williams College'
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          role: R399
          type: corporate
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        - areaCode: n-us-ma
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      note: 'The gift of Alfred Clark Chapin at the founding of the Chapin Library at Williams College, February 1923.  Bookplate of the Chapin Library.'
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        - geonamesId: 4955786
          name: 'Williamstown, MA'
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        start: 1923
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