Religious commentary, nd

Component identifier:

Item 38

Content Summary:

Content: Annotated flyleaf fragment. Incipit speculum missae (hugonis cardinalis) a) de armis sacerdotalibus b) innocentii III de sacrosancto altaris officio liber=begins to be a mirror of the Mass (hugonis cardinalis) a) concerning the arms of priests b) the duty of the altar of the sacred and holy book of the Innocent III

Provenance: Crest of a lion rampant. Annotated ‘Sir T.P. Middle Hill, 534’. Most likely from the library of Sir Thomas Phillips of Middle Hill, Worcestershire.

Extent: 1 leaf

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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