Religious text, 15th century

Component identifier:

Item 5

Content Summary:

Origin: English

Content: Text deals with melancholy and the humours, possibly medical but could be a spiritual treatise

Script: 'Secretary cursive' but with Anglicana letter-forms intruding

Extent: 1 leaf

Other detail: Used as a pastedown

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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