Legal text, 1439

Component identifier:

Item 17

Content Summary:

Content: Edition of Epistles. Book of letters by Doctors of Law from the University of Heidelberg.

Colophon 1: 'This copy 12 November 1439'

Colophon 2: 'This book is by me Johannes Wildenhertz de Fritzlaria'. Transcribed and put together by him in book form in 1453

Extent: 1 leaf

Date: taken from the year the letters were written

Other detail: Watermark - 'Tete du Boef’. Possible link with item 63 by name of owner, ‘Johannes’

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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