Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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  copyFeatures: Several early reading marks and MS marginal annotations. Later MS foliation on upper right corner of rectos.
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  descriptionLanguage: eng
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  generalNotes:
    - Record created by Elena Fogolin. Revised by John Lancaster.
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  paperSizeHeight: 270
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  physicalDescriptionNote: 'Leaves [a]1 and [b]1 blank wanting. Quire [l] misbound in order: 1-2, 7-8, 5-6, 3-4, 9-10. Sheets [l] 3.6 and 4.7 are folded the other way around. '
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          name: 'Parrasio, Aulo Giano'
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          name: 'Seripando, Antonio'
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      note: 'MS ownership inscription below colophon on [I]9v “Antonij Serpa[n]di ex Iani Parrhasij testamento”. Antonio Seripando inherited the library of Aulo Giano Parrasio. His books in turn were bequeathed to his brother Girolamo.'
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          name: Naples
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        end: 1531
        start: 1510
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    - agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1731 - 1790'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Derome, Nicolas-Denis'
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          role: R110
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      bindingDate: v
      bindingNote: '18th century calf on millboards by Derôme, boards with triple-fillet frame tooled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands. In second panel red leather label gilt-stamped “CALDERINI / COMMENT. / IN / MARTIALEM”, in third dark green leather label “ROMAE / 1474”. The other four panels with rich gilt-tooled decoration. Turn-ins with gilt-tooled decoration. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges.'
      bindingStatus: b
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      boardMaterial: g
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: a
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          name: Paris
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        end: 1790
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          name: 'Wodhull, Michael'
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      note: "On front flyleaf verso, his autograph and date of acquisition“Nov: 28th 1791”. Wodhull's collection was inherited by Mary Ingram, his wife's youngest sister, then to the Severne family, but remained in his Thenford house until 1886 (The Property of J. E. Severne, Esq. M.P. of Thenbury House, Banbury, Northamptonshire, London, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11-21 Jan. 1886, lot 564)."
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          name: Thenford
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1816
        start: 1791
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    - acquisitionMethod: c
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1826 - 1899'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Severne, John Edmund '
          ownerId: 00014288
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          role: R390
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      note: "Wodhull's library was bequeathed in 1816 to his sister-in-law, Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; it last belonged to J. E. Severne, M.P., who sold it by auction in 1886 (Sotheby's). "
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        - geonamesId: 7296731
          name: Thenford
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1899
        start: 1826
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        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1819 - 1899'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Quaritch, Bernard'
          ownerId: 3644
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          type: person
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      note: "Quaritch is recorded as the purchaser at the Wodhull-Severne sale; he was acting for Hunnewell, as recorded in Hunnewell's annotations to his 1873 printed list.  An annotated copy of the sale catalogue records the price paid as £1/10/0."
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          name: London
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      priceCurrency: pounds sterling
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1886
        start: 1886
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1832 - 1910'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Hunnewell, James Frothingham'
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          role: R390
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          dates: '1879 - 1954'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Hunnewell, James Melville'
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          role: R320
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      note: "James Frothingham Hunnewell's bookplate on front pastedown. His annotations in a copy of his 1873 printed list are: \"[£]1/13/0 @ 5.37 bot for me by B.Q\" [that is, an exchange rate of $5.37 to the pound] and \"Mch 12/[18]86 [$]8.87\". Hunnewell paid a 10% commission to Quaritch."
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        - geonamesId: 4930956
          name: Boston
      priceAmount: 8.87
      priceCurrency: U.S. dollars
      priceNote: 'The price calculated by Hunnewell, at $5.37 to the pound; Quaritch charged £1/13/0, or a 10% commission.'
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        end: 1919
        start: 1886
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          name: Harvard College Library
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      note: 'Deposited in Harvard College Library by James Melville Hunnewell (Class of 1901) January, 1919.'
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        - geonamesId: 4931972
          name: Cambridge
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  history:
    - date: 2023-02-09T19:03:31
    - date: 2023-02-09T19:04:29
    - date: 2023-08-24T17:00:50
    - date: 2023-08-24T17:17:15