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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.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Dates:
1606-1613.
Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.1
Scope and Contents
Six volumes bound in four.
Dates:
1562.
Copy of Claire Chevrillon-Fabre, "Cinq Années de Souvenir".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9697
Scope and Contents
An account of life in France under the German occupation, 1939-1944.
Dates:
circa 1988.
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.
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus considerable dans les mouvemens de citoyens et bourgeois de Geneve l’anneé 1707 par Michel Covelle Regent de la neuviéme classe.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.5
Dates:
1707-1730.