ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection
HMSS 0049 Barbara Ross Papers
Scope and Content Notes
Call Number | HMSS 0049 |
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Collection | Barbara Ross Papers |
Date Range | 1970s-1980s |
Quantity | 1.53m (9 manuscript boxes) |
Access Conditions | Boxes 1-8 reference only. Box 9 CLOSED |
File Number | - |
Related Collections | - |
Barbara Ross has collected material concerning calligraphy and the history of handwriting, as well as articles on Women’s history and copies of her lectures, talks and published articles.
Box No. | Series No. | File No. | Description | Date Range |
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1 | 1 | 1 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Cards of Medieval and Late Manuscripts, Showing Initials, Styles of Handwriting, Illumination and Decoration Religious mss: bibles, psalters, theological commentaries 7th century+ |
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1 | 1 | 2 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Cards of Medieval and Late Manuscripts, Showing Initials, Styles of Handwriting, Illumination and Decoration Secular mss: romances, histories, medical |
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1 | 1 | 3 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Cards of Medieval and Late Manuscripts, Showing Initials, Styles of Handwriting, Illumination and Decoration Books of Hours – Christmas narrative, i.e. Annunciation, Visitation, Shepherds, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt |
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1 | 1 | 4 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Cards of Medieval and Late Manuscripts, Showing Initials, Styles of Handwriting, Illumination and Decoration Books of Hours: material other than the Christmas narrative – borders, calendars, personages such as individual saints |
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1 | 1 | 5 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Cards of Medieval and Late Manuscripts, Showing Initials, Styles of Handwriting, Illumination and Decoration Contemporary use of calligraphy in modern cards |
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2 | 2 | 1 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip, 320 taken from “The Benedictine and the Book”, a Bodleian Library, Oxford, Exhibition – catalogue of exhibition |
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2 | 2 | 2 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 211H – Important Early Texts A Miscellany from Bede’s Copy of Acts to a Wycliffe Bible |
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2 | 2 | 3 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 117 Italian Mss (including 2 Benevantan examples from Dalmatia up to AD 1300 |
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2 | 2 | 4 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 138B 10th century insular script and caroline miniscule |
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2 | 2 | 5 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 170E Gothic Script 1300 – 15th century |
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2 | 2 | 6 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Items selected to illustrate my Early Modern Scripts lecture |
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2 | 2 | 7 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Items selected for Archive hands + document types |
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2 | 2 | 8 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 144 (27 frames) Italian Mss and Humanistic script |
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2 | 2 | 9 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Bodleian Library Film Strip 161D, Life of St. Anne |
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2 | 2 | 10 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Slides of Medieval Manuscripts and Styles of Handwriting Miscellaneous unidentified slides mainly illuminations to be found in mss in Australia |
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3 | 3 | 1 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Correspondence Correspondence with Jenny Hood, Illuminator, Adelaide |
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3 | 3 | 2 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Correspondence Correspondence with calligraphers Gemma Black, Peter Moran (both Canberra) and Ethna Gallagher (Sydney) |
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3 | 3 | 3 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Correspondence Correspondence with Donald Jackson, illuminator and calligrapher U.K. and Professor Margaret Marion, Fine Arts, Melbourne. |
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3 | 3 | 4 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Correspondence Correspondence with NZ calligrapher Colleen O’Connor, re “Song of the Wheat” (A. B. Patterson) and its calligrapher Gordon Nicol. |
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3 | 3 | 5 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Correspondence Correspondence with Margaret Davies, Bodleian Library, Oxford, re proposed calligraphy exhibition and representations of St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read (1996) |
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3 | 4 | 6 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Material re an exhibition curated by B. Ross, “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australian collections’ held at the National Library |
Mar 1985 – Feb 1986 |
3 | 4 | 7 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Sets of different kinds of alphabets. |
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3 | 4 | 8 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Publishers’ flyers etc, re books about calligraphy |
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3 | 4 | 9 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Copies of articles about calligraphy (mainly in U.S.) from the Guild of Book Workers Journal, |
1976+ |
3 | 4 | 10 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Copy of article re early women calligraphers. |
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3 | 4 |
11 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Investigations into the 1927 Opening of Parliament Scroll and Maude Henderson Fitzpatrick. |
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3 | 4 | 12 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Australian illuminated addresses – articles and preliminary research on holding. |
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3 | 4 | 13 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous B. Ross’s work on the Guide to illuminated addresses in the National Library. |
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3 | 4 | 14 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Illuminated addresses – investigations into Australian addresses held at Windsor Castle, i.e. those presented to the Royal Family when visiting Australia. |
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3 | 4 | 15 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Re the stationer’s firm John Sands who produced many Australian illuminated addresses |
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3 | 4 | 16 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous B. Ross’s talk on illuminated addresses. |
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3 | 4 | 17 |
Calligraphy and History of Handwriting - Miscellaneous Calendars of Medieval Manuscripts and Women and miscellaneous cuttings re mss, and facsimile reproductions, Seals in the middle ages. |
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4 | 5 | 1 |
Women's History - Correspondence With Wendy Hucker re (a) Women’s History, (b) The Pioneer Women’s Hut Glenroy, Tumbarumba |
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4 | 6 | 2 |
Women's History - Exhibitions Copy of “The D’Oyley Show: an exhibition of Women’s domestic Fancy Work” 1979 and also extract from “Feminism and Art History: questioning The Litany”, of “Quilts the Great American Art” by Patricia Mainardi. |
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4 | 7 | 3 |
Women's History - ANU Women's History Groups Seminars and papers: correspondence with Dr. Suzanne Dixon, founder of group, 1981+. |
1982 –1987 |
4 | 7 | 4 |
Women's History - ANU Women's History Groups Women in pre-industrial society, Forum. |
Nov 1982 |
4 | 7 | 5 |
Women's History - ANU Women's History Groups Marriage in History Colloquium. |
02 Jul 1983 |
4 | 7 | 6 |
Women's History - ANU Women's History Groups Inheritance in History Symposium. |
June 1984 |
4 | 8 | 7 |
Women's History - Other Other Women’s History, Feminism Conferences in Canberra in the 1980s. |
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5,6,7 | 9 | 1 |
Lectures, Talks and Published Articles by B. RossB. Ross’s talks on Medieval Women, Women in Dante, and 13th Century Attitudes to Women; also a bibliography of Women’s History. |
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5,6,7 | 9 | 2 |
Lectures, Talks and Published Articles by B. Ross Talk given to an Inter-Church group at Bowen, N. Queensland, on representations of Women’s History in Canberra. |
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5,6,7 | 9 | 3 |
Lectures, Talks and Published Articles by B. Ross Articles and talks on Dorothy Cottrell, Australian Woman Writer |
1902 – 1957 |
5,6,7 | 9 | 4 |
Lectures, Talks and Published Articles by B. Ross Lectures given on palaeography, handwriting and deciphering old documents to ANU students with associated research and teaching documents. |
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8 | 10 |
Ephemera Newspaper clippings, Pamphlets, Brochures on Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 and the crown jewels plus Recipe Books |
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9 |
Records and Reports - Closed Records of a women's refuge. Daily reports and day books of Managers, Homekeeper and co-ordinator |
1984 – 1985 |