Bond, 1455

Component identifier:

Item 13

Content Summary:

German

Bond. '2 pounds of Strasbourg money' to be paid 'to the mercers' or grocers' guild', together with annual interest.

Place: Not specified. 'Ingewiler' is perhaps modern Ingwiller, north-west of Strasbourg, in Alsace, France

Parties: a. Johann Kleffeler from Gerssdorff, resident of Ingewiler b. Peter Pfluger. ['pfluger' possibly only means 'the ploughman']

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 99-102

Immediate source of acquisition:

The documents in this collection were presented to the National Library of Australia by Sir Rex Nan Kivell in 1969. He referred to it as ‘The Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection’. The documents were collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He acquired them over a number of years from varied sources which were not recorded. However, it seems likely that the group of legal documents in Series 1 relating to the Elliott family of Salisbury would have a single provenance. Nan Kivell had a country house in Devizes, Wiltshire, which is only a short distance from Salisbury.

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