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Missal (Use of Beauvais)
(Catholic Church, 1275) Catholic Church
This leaf comes from the third volume of a three-volume Missal that was written for use in the liturgy of Beauvais. It was given to Beauvais Cathedral by a former canon, Robert de Hangest, shortly before his death on 3 November 1356 so that he would be commemorated every year on the date of his death. The Missal formed part of the Cathedral Library for several centuries until the Napoleonic period when the Missal and other works and relics were removed. While the first and second volumes have yet to surface, the third volume of the Missal (comprising 308 leaves) has passed through several hands of ownership. It was dismembered in 1942, with a portion being sold to Otto F. Ege. He contributed 42 leaves from the Missal to specimen sets he compiled and marketed as "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts". It is listed as no. 15. This leaf came onto the market in 1981, sold by Maggs Bros, London, to the Friends of the Australian National University Library. Lisa Fagin Davis has reassembled 111 surviving fragments to date of the Beauvais Missal as a test case of the Broken Books project under development at the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University.
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Psalter
(1375) Catholic Church
Written in handsome large Gothic characters, with ornamental capitals. Initials and leafy stems in gold and colours forming half borders. The leaf is from a Psalter dismembered by Otto F. Ege for inclusion in 42 specimen sets of medieval manuscript leaves he compiled in the 1940s under the title "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts". It is listed as no. 25. The leaf came onto the market in 1981, sold by Maggs Bros, London, to the Friends of the Australian National University Library.
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[Leaf LXXXIIII from 15th century Antiphonary]
(Catholic Church, 1400) Catholic Church
Red 4-stave music written in gothic hand and square gothic notation. The text is in black and red. Five line initials in red and blue are filled in with red interlace floral designs, while the black initials are filled in with black. The blue and red linear floral designs, with flourishes and beads, extend to the edges of the leaf. Leaf from an antiphonary gifted to the Australian National University Library in 1984 by two sisters June Carnahan and Dawn Power (nee Meyrick). Named the 'Meyrick Page' in honour of the donors. The leaf is imprinted with the mark of an earlier collector, Ernst von Feder (1824-1904), Karlsruhe. Futher clues are needed to help identify the originating dismembered antiphonary which was probably produced in Germany in the fifteenth century.
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Book of Hours (Use of Chalons-sur-Marne)
(1450) Catholic Church
Written in brown ink, ruled in pink. In both pages a floral side-border on burnished gold ground. Initial 'S' at commencement of the lines in matt gold on red and blue background alternately; 'ragged-branch' line-fillers in shaded gold. The floral side-border is different on the two pages: recto, red roses, blue and white acanthus, and blue bell-like flower; verso, white daisies, blue disc-like flower. This leaf is from a Book of Hours dismembered by Otto F. Ege for inclusion in specimen sets of medieval manuscript leaves he compiled in the 1940s under the title "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts". It is listed as no. 48. The leaf came onto the market in 1981, sold by Maggs Bros, London, to the Friends of the Australian National University Library. The 'Reconstructing Folio 48' project led by Lisa Fagin Davis to identify and reassemble the surviving fragments of the Book of Hours has located 29 leaves to date. Based on the internal evidence she has linked the manuscript to Châlons-sur-Marne. This is supported by the portion of the Litany preserved in this leaf. Five saints are invoked, who are traditionally linked to the Diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne (since 1998 Châlons-en-Champagne), namely, Saints Alpin, Germain, Memmius, Elaphe and Poma. St Memmius is venerated as the first bishop of Châlons. Local legend maintains that Châlons was evangelised by Memmius, assisted by his sister Poma, in the first century. The association to Châlons is further supported by the invocations to two other former bishops Saints Alpin and Elaphe. St Alpin served as bishop of Châlons for 47 years (433-480) and founded the Abbey of St Memmius in the diocese. The church dedicated to him, built in Châlons in the eleventh-century, survives to this day. St Elaphe was bishop in 579.
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Book of Hours
(1520) Catholic Church
Written in a flourished cursive script with two 2-line and sixteen 1-line initials in burnished gold on parti-grounds of blue and red, white tracery decoration; also thirteen line-fillers in a matching style. One floral side-border with two acanthus curls, in matt gold colours.
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Annals of agriculture and other useful arts
(London : Printed for the editor, 1785, 1785) Young, Arthur
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Notice respecting the Natives of New Guinea
(London: J.L. Cox, 1831, 1831) Marsden, William
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The Irish in the English Army & Navy and the Irish Arms Bill, in five letters, to Michael Staunton, Esq.
(James M'Cormick, 1843) O'Callaghan, John Cornelius
At a period, when the corrupt and aristocratic rulers of these islands are proving to the world by their various unconstitutional measures, that they are unwilling to rely for support on public opinion, the only legitimate basis for honest government, the reprint, in a cheap and popular form, of the following letters, may not be deemed unseasonable, especially in Ireland, as tending to show so much of the constitution of that army, with which the oligarchy would gladly crush the strictly just, legal, and peaceable demands of an oppressed people, for the restoration of their inalienable privilege of being ruled by their own laws. But, independent of such considerations, the writer of those letters, as having a character to maintain, has been compelled to republish them, in vindication of that character, from the renewed attacks upon it by the Standard. That Tory journal, with the the usual enmity of its party to those who advocate any other position for Ireland, than that of a degraded and plundered province to England, having thought fit, amongst its other abuse of the Irish people, to threaten them with the army, as a certain means of putting down the popular demand for a domestic legislature, the writer of these pages first met the threat in The Green Book, by demonstrating, from various authorities, all most carefully and minutely specified, that the number of Irish Catholics was, and had long been, so great, not only in the army, but likewise in the navy, as to make the invincibility of the Standard's supposed "British heart and British arm," rather a doubtful matter.
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Nineteen years in Polynesia : missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific
(London : J. Snow, 1861) Turner, George
Departure from England and settlement at Tanna -- Labours among the people -- Hostilities and difficulties -- Continued opposition -- Council to put us to death -- War declared -- Our flight -- Our rescue -- Tanna and the Tannese -- Samoa; Position; Early visitors; Successful introduction of Christianity -- Samoa; Early hindrances to Christianity -- Labours at Safata -- Mission seminary -- Conversions -- Mission seminary district -- The press and translations -- Ethnological papers; Infancy and childhood -- Adult and advanced years -- Food; Cooking; Liquors -- Clothing -- Amusements -- Mortality; Logevity; Disease, etc. -- Death and burial -- A future state; Religion, etc. -- Mythological traditions -- Houses -- Canoes -- Articles of manufacture -- Government and laws -- Wars -- Illustrations of scripture -- Missionary voyage in 1845 -- Missionary voyage in 1848 -- Missionary voyage in 1859 -- Conclusion -- Meteorological register for seven years -- Comparative view of the Polynesian dialects
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From J.W. Lindt's studio, Melbourne
(1886) Photographer: John William Lindt
Lindt photograph album dated 1886, presented to Dr S. M. Marston, Melbourne, which comprises of photographs of Koiari, Motu, Bertha Lagoon, Tupueselei (a village built out in the water) in Papua, 25 prints, c.13 leaves.
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Some Notes on Java and its Administration by the Dutch
(Allahabad: Pioneer Press, 1892) Boys, Henry Scott
This modestly-entitled work by a former member of the Bengal Civil Service is in fact more like a well-researched essay than a miscellaneous collection of notes. It pays considerable attention to Java's history, though its coverage is rather patchy by modern standards, and many names are mis-spelled. It has a few interesting insights on the situation at the time of the author's visit (1889), such as the prosperous appearance of the Javanese, especially the children, the domination of trade by women, and the absence of any sign of Islam. But its main interest is the author's favorable opinion of the economic management of Java by the Dutch, as compared with the British in India. He particularly commends the Dutch refusal to introduce individual property rights to land. He does predict however (correctly) that the growth of Java's population will lead to economic problems in the future. He is also unusual among British colonial administrators of the 19th century in suggesting that the Western way of doing things is not invariably the best one. Dr. Anne Kumar, ANU College of Asian Studies Disclaimer: The text in this document has been generated using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The output has not been checked for accuracy, therefore the ANU Library (Menzies Precinct) wishes to advise readers to refer to the graphical version if greater accuracy is required.
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The work of Walter Crane: with notes by the artist
(J. S. Virtue, 1898) Crane, Walter
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Rasavahini by Vedeha Mahā-thera
(Colombo : Jinalankara Press, 1901) Vedeha
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Sarattha Dipika or Rasavāhinī tīkā
(Colombo : G Boteju, 1907) Siddhattha
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His Imperial Majesty's shoot in Nepalese Terai, December 1911
(Mhow, India : Herzog & Higgins, 1912)
These 50 photographs depict scenes of the shikar, or hunt; the hunted animals, and the hunting camps of King George V in the Tarai in December 1911. The photographs feature the wild animals of the Tarai including tigers, bears and rhinoceroses; the use of the elephant "hunting ring" technique; the activities of the mahouts (or elephant trainers/handlers) and shikaris (or hunters), as well as the various dignitaries involved in the visit. Each individual photograph has a pencilled number, but no caption. The ANU Library has supplied the captions.
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The Land of the Lyre Bird: A Story of Early Settlement in the Great Forest of South Gippsland
(Melbourne : Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Limited for the Committee of the South Gippsland Pioneers Association, 1920, 1920) South Gippsland Development League
Being a description of the Big Scrub in its Virgin State with its Birds and Animals, and of the Adventures and Hardship of its Early Explorers and Prospectors Also Accounts by the Settlers of the Clearing Settlement, and Development of the Country
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Canberra
(Sydney: John Andrew & Co., 1923., 1923) Wright, W. davis
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A brief history of Canberra: the capital city of Australia
(Federal Capital Press of Australia, 1927) Watson, Frederick
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Canberra's first hundred years and after
(W. C. Penfold, 1927) Robinson, Frederick W.
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Minutes of evidence, Royal Commission on Child Endowment
(Canberra : Government Printers, 1928) Australia. Royal Commissions. Child Endowment or Family Allowances; O'Halloran, Thomas Shuldham