ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

Call Number

HMSS 0049

Collection 

Barbara Ross Papers

Date Range

1970s-1980s

Quantity

1.53m  (9 manuscript boxes)

Access Conditions

File Number

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Related Collections

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CALLIGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF HANDWRITING – CARDS OF MEDIEVAL AND LATER MANUSCRIPTS, SHOWING INITIALS, STYLES OF HANDWRITING, ILLUMINATION AND DECORATION

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Religious mss: bibles, psalters, theological commentaries 7^th century+

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Secular mss: romances, histories, medical

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Books of Hours – Christmas narrative, i.e. Annunciation, Visitation, Shepherds, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt

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Books of Hours: material other than the Christmas narrative – borders, calendars, personages such as individual saints

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Contemporary use of calligraphy in modern cards

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CALLIGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF HANDWRITING – SLIDES OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND STYLES OF HANDWRITING

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Bodleian Library Film Strip, 320 taken from “The Benedictine and the Book”, a Bodleian Library, Oxford, Exhibition – catalogue of exhibition

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 211H – Important Early Texts A Miscellany from Bede’s Copy of Acts to a Wycliffe Bible

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 117 Italian Mss (including 2 Benevantan examples from Dalmatia up to AD 1300

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 138B 10^th century insular script and caroline miniscule

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 170E Gothic Script 1300 – 15^th century

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Items selected to illustrate my Early Modern Scripts lecture

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Items selected for Archive hands + document types

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 144 (27 frames) Italian Mss and Humanistic script

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Bodleian Library Film Strip 161D, Life of St. Anne

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Miscellaneous unidentified slides mainly illuminations to be found in mss in Australia

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CALLIGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF HANDWRITING – CORRESPONDENCE

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Correspondence with Jenny Hood, Illuminator, Adelaide

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Correspondence with calligraphers Gemma Black, Peter Moran (both Canberra) and Ethna Gallagher (Sydney)

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Correspondence with Donald Jackson, illuminator and calligrapher U.K. and Professor Margaret Marion, Fine Arts, Melbourne.

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Correspondence with NZ calligrapher Colleen O’Connor, re “Song of the Wheat” (A. B. Patterson) and its calligrapher Gordon Nicol.

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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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CALLIGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF HANDWRITING – MISCELLANEOUS

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Material re an exhibition curated by B. Ross, “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australian collections’ held at the National Library

Mar 1985 – Feb 1986

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Sets of different kinds of alphabets.

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Publishers’ flyers etc, re books about calligraphy

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Copies of articles about calligraphy (mainly in U.S.) from the Guild of Book Workers Journal,

1976+

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Copy of article re early women calligraphers.

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Investigations into the 1927 Opening of Parliament Scroll and Maude Henderson Fitzpatrick.

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Australian illuminated addresses – articles and preliminary research on holding.

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B. Ross’s work on the Guide to illuminated addresses in the National Library.

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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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Re the stationer’s firm John Sands who produced many Australian illuminated addresses

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B. Ross’s talk on illuminated addresses.

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Calendars of Medieval Manuscripts and Women and miscellaneous cuttings re mss, and facsimile reproductions, Seals in the middle ages.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY – CORRESPONDENCE

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With Wendy Hucker re (a) Women’s History, (b) The Pioneer Women’s Hut Glenroy, Tumbarumba

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WOMEN’S HISTORY – EXHIBITIONS

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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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WOMEN’S HISTORY – ANU WOMEN’S HISTORY GROUPS

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Seminars and papers: correspondence with Dr. Suzanne Dixon, founder of group, 1981+.

1982 –1987

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Women in pre-industrial society, Forum.

Nov 1982

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Marriage in History Colloquium.

02 Jul 1983

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Inheritance in History Symposium.

June 1984

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WOMEN’S HISTORY – OTHER

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Other Women’s History, Feminism Conferences in Canberra in the 1980s.

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LECTURES, TALKS AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY B. ROSS

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B. Ross’s talks on Medieval Women, Women in Dante, and 13^th Century Attitudes to Women; also a bibliography of Women’s History.

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Talk given to an Inter-Church group at Bowen, N. Queensland, on representations of Women’s History in Canberra.

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Articles and talks on Dorothy Cottrell, Australian Woman Writer

1902 – 1957

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Lectures given on palaeography, handwriting and deciphering old documents to ANU students with associated research and teaching documents.

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EPHEMERA -

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Newspaper clippings, Pamphlets, Brochures on Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 and the crown jewels plus Recipe Books

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RECORDS AND REPORTS - CLOSED

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Records of a women's refuge. 

Daily reports and day books of Managers, Homekeeper and co-ordinator

1984 – 1985