Includes chiefly fine printed keepsakes featuring Bewick engravings, as well as cards, some proofs, and a menu for a Newcastle Imprint Club event. Printers include Gordon Williams, Havilah Press, and Anchor and Acorn Press. File also includes one original silhouette cut by Thomas Bewick.
File relate chiefly to European medieval food history, including notes and conference materials are included from 1990 medieval cuisine conference at the Université de Montréal. Also included are research materials and conference presentations related to European early modern and North American Indigenous food history.
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.
This file contains contracts, invoices, deeds, and letters related to land owned by James Morrison and family members for the period between 1651 and 1902. The documents relate to land located in and around Montreal, and include rental and maintenance agreements, an invoice for surveying, and correspondence for Morrison's descendants with information about which plots of land were owned by their relatives. Documents are arranged in chronological order.