Religious text, 15th century

Component identifier:

Item 15

Content Summary:

Content: Probably a fragment from a Service Book. Includes musical notation at bottom of one page. One side of the leaf is manuscript, Italian centre with Germanic influence (c15th century). The other and possibly more important side was printed in Northern Italy - could be Venice or Mantua (final quarter of the 15th century). Passion of Christ from Luke.

Extent: 1 leaf

Other detail: Label pasted on one side: '1639-1643' - possibly indicates fragment used as the outer cover of a year book (?) in Germany or Netherlands(?)

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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