Legal text, c1300

Component identifier:

Item 30

Content Summary:

Origin: Italian

Content: Labelled 'English customs and habits'. Possibly Canon law.

Script: Italian rotunda

Annotation: 16th-century pen trials, those on back saying that whoever can read this book can own it

Extent: 1 leaf

Other detail: Used as a limp vellum cover and badly degraded

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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