Canon Law, c1300

Component identifier:

Item 89-90

Content Summary:

Origin: Italian - Bologna

Content: Text on Canon Law

Script: Italian littera bononiensis

Decoration: one leaf has nice little face added inside an initial by the 14th-century Italian glossing hand; Monk's/scribe's head highlighting one of the annotations

Extent: 2 leaves

Other detail: Manicula (pointing hand symbol)

Note: From the same work as items 76-79. Item 43 may also be from the same work.

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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