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Balcarres Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates: 1231-1686, and undated.

Five French workers' record books.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5693
Scope and Contents Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894. The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous employment; changes were...
Dates: 1837-1876

Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17999
Scope and Contents

A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.

Dates: [Circa 1815.]

Material concerning the history of Geneva.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.9
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) “Reponse aux questions de Milord Townsend sur l’histoire et le gouvernement de Geneve par Monsieur Chouet conseiller et secretaire d’etat”; (ii) “Etat présent du gouvernement de Geneve en 1734”; (iii) ‘Remarques dur la ville et la Republique de Geneve; (iv) “Rôle des Sindics de la République de Genéve depuis l’an 1530”, ‘Les noms des anciens comtes de Genéve …’ and ‘Liste de Evêquas de Genéve…’.

Dates: [Circa 1734.]

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Transcript of “Discourse en forme de lettres sur le gouvernement de Geneve et sur l’affire du sieur Micheli du Crest copié a Lyon en 1734.”

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.1
Scope and Contents

Copies of papers concerning the judgement of the Council of Two Hundred of Geneva against Jacques-Barthélemi Micheli du Crest.

At the end is a printed notice, 1736, of the “consultations” of the Parliament of Paris on the same subject.

Dates: 1734, 1736.

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