Manuscript plan of Quebec fort attributed to Jean Bourdon. Drawn in dark brown ink on laid paper. Includes a legend identifying parts of fort. Includes two statements of scale: "Toise pour le fort" (15 toises) and "Eschelle de la Montagne" (230 toises).
Unfinished manuscript plan of elevated fort, in the style of a bastion fort. Drawn in dark brown ink on laid paper and hand coloured in green and red. Fort has no details beyond external wall.
Manuscript plan of a riverside fort with bastion fortifications and a wide ditch. Drawn in dark brown ink on laid paper and hand coloured in blue and red. Includes a legend identifying parts of the structure, with some letters crossed out.
Manuscript plan identified as the the first settlement at Montreal, 1642, possibly on an inlet. Drawn in brown ink on laid paper. Includes buildings such as a chapel and magazine, as well as cannons and a place for small fishing boats ("chalouppe").
Manuscript plan attributed to Jean Bourdon. Drawn in dark brown ink on laid paper. Includes a legend identifying structures such as towers, sleeping quarters, platforms, palisades, a bakery, a forge, and gardens. Statement of scale 12 toises.
Manuscript aerial view of the platform and magazine of Quebec. Drawn in dark brown ink on laid paper. Includes a legend identifying parts. Statement of scale is 20 toises.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating's devotional work Tri biorghaoithe an bháis (Three shafts of death) in Irish, copied around 1650. Wanting pages 1-15. The manuscript is written on laid paper with watermarks (see for example pages 138-139). The leaves are bound in two pieces of leather with leather thongs, no spine.
Deed of ownership for a plot of land in Ville Marie given to Urban Texier, dit Lavigne. Signed by Paul de La Chomeday, Governor of the Island of Montreal.