Sheet from a Service Book, late 14th-15th century

Component identifier:

Item 13

Content Summary:

German or Eastern provenance

Contains on one side Hymns for the Daily Office of Terce, Sext and None, and on the other side the Sequence Dies Ire, Dies Illa from the Mass of the Dead, which appears to be a later addition.

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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