Nicolaus de Auximo, Supplementum to the Summa Pisanella of Bartholomew of Pisa, and Canones Poenitentiales Printed at Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1478.

A grand copy, by a famous printer, of an alphabetical subject-index to the fundamental texts of canon law.  Texts such as these were hardly exciting or innovative but they were necessary tools aimed at a reliable market.  Note the absence of folio-numbers (an absence normal in manuscripts) and the general resemblance to manuscript, especially the handmade decorated initials in red, green, blue, yellow and purple.  Each alphabetical section opened with a pink leather foredge marker, now mainly trimmed off.

Property of St David’s Anglican Cathedral Hobart, perhaps brought to Tasmania by its first Anglican bishop, Francis Russell Nixon (1803-79).