%{search_type} search results

Included in the collection are land and notarial papers, privileges of nobility, and other legal documents regarding the operation of a noble estate in early modern France. The most important pieces include the earliest document in the collection, a parchment from 1297 recording the contract between the noble family Caumont and the population of Berbiguières that bestowed noble privileges. There are also 25 documents on parchment from the 14th - 16th centuries. These deal with matters of justice, property rights, the rights of surveillance (droit de guet), and the laws pertaining to the gallows or gibbet. There are also two property and notarial registers of Berbiguières containing hundreds of acts regarding the lordship, its lands, vassals, and tenant farmers, as well as inventories and analyses of titles dating from the 13th century onwards.

Apparently unrelated documents, primarily 17th & 18th century, in French and German, but also a few in Old French, English, Italian, Latin, and Arabic. Many from Bern (some of these are related) and one each from Geneva, Paris, Kensington, & London. Includes apprenticeship papers, monetary accounts, contracts, a marriage announcement, a medical or coroner's report, and a life annuity contract.

Photographic prints from the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas collection include the following scientists: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Peter Apian, F. Arago, Aristotle, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, F.W. Bessel, Johann Elert Bode, Robert Boyle, James Bradley, Tycho Brahe, David Brewster, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolaus Copernicus, Humphry Davy, J.B. Delambre, René Descartes, John Dollond, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, John Flamsteed, M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste Fourier, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Pierre Gassendi, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Edmond Halley, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Pierre Simon Laplace, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, U. J. Le Verrier, Nevil Maskelyne, Gerhard Mercator, Charles Messier, Isaac Newton, W. Olbers, Ptolemy, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Angelo Secchi, Edwin A. Stevens. James Watt.
One of the prints is unidentified. Biographical sketches from the periodical, The popular science monthly, are about Angelo Secchi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Caroline Lucretia Herschel; another insert is about David Brewster. Artists and printmakers are also identified. These include: Pierre-Michel Alix, Charles Beaubrun, Julien-Léopold Boilly, Louis, Boilly, Johann Friedrich Bolt, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicholas Gabriel Dupuis, William Thomas Fry, Jules Gaildrau, Franz Gareis, Johann Elias Haid, Frans Hals, Benjamin Holl, William Holl, Thomas Hudson, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas, Lawrence, James Lonsdale, Frederick Mackenzie, Jean Denis Nargeot, James Posselwhite, Henry Raeburn, Denis Auguste Marie Raffett, John Russell, Edward Scriven, Ambroise Tardieu, James Thomson, Charles Albert Waltner.

2 letters of Edward Gibbon, 1775, to the first Lady Sheffield (as Mrs. Holroyd); 2 letters by Hester Gibbon to Lord Sheffield, one referring to her nephew, the historian, 1786; One letter from Francis North to his sister Anne (later Countess of Sheffield) giving an irreverent description of Gibbon at a party at Lausanne, 1791. Also included are letters by W. Charriere de Severy, 1796-1820, Jean David Levade, announcing the death of Mme. Catherine Charriere de Severy, 1796, and letters to Gibbon senior (36), together with Gibbon senior's household accounts and legal documents (ca. 200 items), 1693-1744.

Most of the documents appear to be unrelated, although they may, with study, reflect a family history. Some documents stand out such as one signed by "Louis," which gave someone passage through France. Another "passport" was signed by William III of England in the late 17th century. There is a group of related 19th century documents from Bavaria and Baden. And there is one in an unidentified Slavic language. Some are in Latin, on parchment and vellum, with official seals still attached.

Property documents, family titles and brief genealogies, correspondence, army documents, financial documents, a hand-colored crest and proof of nobility, property seizure under the revolution, restitution, etc. The 16th and 17th century documents nearly all relate to the Lesueur de Colleville and related families, and the 18th and 19th century documents to the five Isaac Dumonts and the two Samuel-Gabriel Dumonts.

Archive of 40 documents – many of them in both French and German – from the city of Colmar concerning the regulation of prices and other professional practices among butchers, fishmongers and bakers between the years 1618 and 1783. Taken as a whole, the collection provides information about ingredients of Alsatian cuisine and their changing costs over time. The bulk of the collection consists of letterpress forms printed by the Colmar corporation of butchers for internal use and/or distribution to members; they were intended both to fix minimum prices for various cuts of meat and to remind members of their professional obligations. They include extensive lists of butchers' goods for sale with blank spaces left for filling in the current price for each cut of meat, as well as rules about stall maintenance, allowances for taking unsold meat home for personal use, areas where butchering is licit and illicit, and admonitions against certain practices. In addition, one document pertains to fishmongers, and two pertain to bakers and grain-sellers

Ciphers, letters, official patents, documents, and one drawing collected by Montauti while special envoy. Letters include chancellery letters of Cosimo III and Francesco Panciatichi, as well as letters of various royal and church personages.

A collection of 138 original plates engraved for The Lady's Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book, illustrating the mode of dress (London and Paris) worn on all occasions: for morning, evening, riding, walking, etc.

The volume, written in several different hands, is an account book listing (it appears) all of the ingoing and outgoing money. Entries give the name of the donor or recipient, the amount of money involved, the date, and the reason for the transaction (items bought or sold, debts paid, etc.). The volume is divided into three parts: "Entrata di Danari Contanti," "Uscita di Danari Contanti," and "Quaderno di Cassa."