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17 postcards of Stansmore Dean Stevenson and Jean Stevenson to Elise Pruvost, their housekeeper in France.
File
Identifier: Acc.14471
Scope and Contents
The postcards, all except one written in French, were formerly part of the family album of Elise Pruvost and her daughter Christiane Lavoger. They date from the period when Stansmore Dean Stevenson and her husband, the painter R. Macaulay Stevenson, and step-daughter Jean Stevenson, stayed in Montreiul-sur-mer, France. The collection also includes a photograph of Elise Pruvost and the Stevenson family on a visit to London, c.1925.With biographical information, in French, compiled...
Dates:
1910-1926.
Act I of "L`Ecossaise", a play in Italian and French.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6322
Dates:
late 18th century.
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.
Catalogue of the sulphur chests of antique gems belonging to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Item
Identifier: F.R.261b
Scope and Contents
Alphabetical and numbered lists in French.
Dates:
18th century.
“Collection Générale de ce qui s’est passé tant de la procédure de Mʳ Le Duc d’aiguillon, que de tout ce qui a donné lieu à l’exil des membres du Parlement, a commencer du 4 Avril 1770 Jusqu’au 24 Janvier 1771. Ensuite les protestations des Princes du Sang et les Representationes des autres cours de Paris &[ce]”.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.1-4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript details the proceedings concerning the differences between the Crown and the Parliament of Paris and the abolition of that High Court.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Trajanus.6.1-4.
Dates:
1770-1771.
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.
Copy of Sir George Arthur, "Life of Lord Kitchener" (1920), containing author`s letter, ?1921, and proof of Earl Haig`s preface for French edition.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7128
Dates:
1920-1921.
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
French prose translation of "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott: "La Dame du Lac" by Etienne-Aulède-Sophie Fevret de Saint-Mesmin, Vicomtesse de Juigné
Item
Identifier: Acc.10944
Dates:
1826.
Genealogical papers concerning the Stewarts of Monteith, compiled by Margaret B Monteith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5333
Scope and Contents
With two sets of proofs, circa 1930, of Monteith`s book on the lineage of the Earls of Menteith, and the manuscript of "Les Gardes Ecossais".
Dates:
Circa 1930.
Henri Legludic, "Notes et Observations de Médecine Légale", with two letters of the author to André Raffalovich.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5593
Dates:
1896.
“Heures roϊalles contenant l'office divin et plusieurs Oraisons tres-devotes”, a prayerbook written in Belgium.
Item
Identifier: MS.9154
Scope and Contents
The prayerbook contains the Mass (folio 20), preparation for confession and communion (folio 71), the Penitential Psalms (folio 136), litanies of the saints (folio 309 verso) and of the Virgin (folio 320 verso), Vespers for Sundays (folio 215), and the 'Ordo benedicti habitum [sic: 'benedictionis habitus' is meant] Confraternitatis S. Joannis decollate' (folio 330), as well as other liturgical material and numerous prayers intended for private use. There is a list of contents on folios...
Dates:
1734.
Interleaved copy of ‘Le bal masqué’ by Edouard Duprez (Paris, 1870), being the French version of the libretto of ‘Un ballo in maschera’ by Verdi containing the mise en scène with detailed stage instructions, ?late 19th century, by G de Beauplan.
Item
Identifier: MS.21853
Dates:
1870, ?late 19th century.
Journal of an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland by an anonymous female Swiss teacher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13318
Scope and Contents
This journal was written by a Swiss female teacher on an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland during the First World War. There are descriptions of time spent in Edinburgh, particularly Greyfriars Church, Caroline Park and Granton, also visits to Rosslyn Chapel, Perth, and Craigo House near Montrose. While in Montrose she worked in a factory manufacturing hospital supplies. There is a detailed account of the events of Armistice Day, 1918. At the back are a number of recipes for cakes and...
Dates:
1917-1919
Journal of Sieur de la Croix, as secretary to the French embassy to the Ottoman Empire.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.5 (i)-(iii)
Dates:
1673-1678.
"La Renommée qui Publie le Bonheur de l`Europe sous le Memorable Reigne de Jacques Auguste Deuxieme du nom Roy de la Grande Bretagne..." from the Royal Library at St Germains bound for presentation to James VII and II and his queen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10690
Dates:
1688.
Letter, in French, of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, as British Envoy in Brussels, to a French royalist informant, Jacques Mallet du Pan, in Switzerland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11082
Dates:
1794.
Letter of Hector Berlioz to Morris Barnett.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13849
Content Description
Copy of a letter, 1849, of Hector Berlioz to his friend, the actor, playwright and music critic Morris Barnett. The transcription is undated, and the hand not known. The letter is published in Berlioz's 'Correspondence Générale', ed. Pierre Citron, vol. 3 (Paris 1978), no. 1260.
Dates:
1849
Letters and cards of Janet Caird to Maité Cepeda, written in French and addressed to France and Spain.
File
Identifier: Acc.12294
Dates:
1964-1992.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2991-2992
Dates:
1548-1550, 1561, undated.
Letters, photographs and papers of Lena Scott, relating to Grange School, Edinburgh and her service in the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12543
Dates:
1889-1972.
'Livre de I'ecclesiaste ensemble les Lamentations de leremie. De la main d'Esther Anglois françoise, a Lislebourg en Escosse, 1602', being a calligraphic copy of the books of Ecclesiastes and Jeremiah from a French Genevan version of the Bible.
Item
Identifier: MS.20498
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is dedicated to Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, and contains his coat of arms (folio l verso). The text is written in a variety of scripts within etched ornamental borders. There are two decorative title-pages (folios 1 and 16), a portrait of the scribe (folio 5) and numerous small decorations and headpieces throughout. The manuscript is closely related to New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, French MS.8, which contains Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon written by...
Dates:
[?1601.]