Religious text, c1400

Component identifier:

Item 13

Content Summary:

Origin: Germany or Netherlands [?]

Content: Fragment from a Breviary

Script: Gothic textualis semi-quadrata

Extent: 1 leaf

Other detail: Used as limp vellum binding with 23679 written horizontally on spine, 18th-19th century (‘7’ is uncrossed so perhaps used in England)

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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