Religious text, c1400

Component identifier:

Item 100-105

Content Summary:

Origin: English

Content: Probably fragment from a Book of Hours. Prayers to the Virgin - the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.Script: Litterae notabiliores touched in yellow (small letters, the equivalents of capitals following full stops).

Decoration: Ruling in red indicates high status; one leaf has illuminated minor initial trimmed off on stub.

Extent: 5 leaves

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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