Religious text, 14th century

Component identifier:

Item 81-82

Content Summary:

Origin: English, possibly York

Content: Calendar from a Psalter or Book of Hours of York Use and probable York manufacture. Calendar for July-August on this fragment. Saints mentioned are Wilfrid of York, Wulfram, Cuthbert, Oswald, and Radegunde.

Provenance: Evidence of ownership by the Musgrave family of Edenhall, Cumbria. Contains obits for the Musgrave family - Sir Thomas Musgrave d 1409, Hartley (Yorkshire), and Sir Richard Musgrave d 1555 and buried at ‘Edenhal’.

Script: Gothic textualis semi-quadrata

Extent: 2 leaves

Other detail: Annotation makes mention of the Coronation of James 1 on 24 July 1602

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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