Religious commentary, early 13th century

Component identifier:

Item 18-19

Content Summary:

Origin: English

Content: New Testament or Gospel book commentary (one passage discusses Tarsus). In the same hand - notes of chapters mentioning Tarsus in margins.

Script: Has skeletal initials plus English cursive features, early 13th century

Extent: 2 leaves

Other details: Two separate leaves from the same book - one page from Book ‘XX’ and the other from Book ‘XIX'. Probably used as an outer wrapper, as turn ins clean and outside dark. Top portion only extant.

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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