Religious commentary, c1300

Component identifier:

Item 12

Content Summary:

Origin: Italian

Content: Joachim's commentary on the bible for preachers. Text at top in 16th century cursive hand (dated 1555): 'Speratur barbar ponitis… fol [folio] 88 in Joachim preacher'. Possibly Joachim of Fiore.

Script: Nice gilded, flourished initials. Midway down back, between column, are pen trials and 'Rich[ard]' in English 16th century hand.

Extent: 2 contiguous bifolia

Other detail: Notation indicates that there were originally 88 folios

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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