Canon Law, 13th century

Component identifier:

Item 76-79

Content Summary:

Origin: Italian - Bologna

Content: Text on Canon law

Extent: 4 leaves

Other details: Item 78 is annotated by a 14th-century Italian hand; presence of little runover symbols to show where blank end of a line carries runover text from line above or below; a large red initial ‘P’ has been infilled in at a later date with a small figure with breasts; manicula (pointing hand symbol); some text obscured by pastedown residues

Note: From the same work as items 89-90. Item 43 may also be from the same work – has the same glossing hand

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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