{"id":528,"date":"2017-06-12T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-06-12T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:45:01","slug":"back-in-at-the-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"(Back) in at the deep end"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_529\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-529\" class=\"wp-image-529 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Macintosh's copy of &quot;Dizionario delle lingue Italiana&quot; (1787), showing that he purchased it in Rome in December 1790.\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_151843616-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macintosh&#8217;s copy of &#8220;Dizionario delle lingue Italiana&#8221; (1787), showing that he purchased it in Rome in December 1790.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is thrilling, if not a little overwhelming, to be back in Avignon and to be fully immersed in the archives.<\/p>\n<p>My main task this week is to put together a working catalogue of Macintosh&#8217;s library. Although all the books are (I think) housed in Avignon&#8217;s municipal library, the M\u00e9diath\u00e8que Ceccano, there is no consolidated listing of them here. What there is (elsewhere, at the\u00a0Archives d\u00e9partementales de Vaucluse) is a listing of the books as they were seized by the revolutionary authorities in 1793. Because the archives are closed today, I have been working from a facsimile\u00a0(published in the book\u00a0<em>Des Ecossais a Avignon<\/em>\u00a0[1993]) of the inventory that includes only the first page (11 titles\u00a0out of a total of 70). Because the list is written in French, and presents an inventory of largely English-language titles, it requires a good deal of\u00a0detective work with the catalogue to match the inventory with the books housed here. Each title has then to be ordered up separately so that I can check the edition details and provenance information. It&#8217;s a rather fiddly and time-consuming task that I suspect will take longer than a week to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Quite by chance I was given one of the books as a microfilm, rather than a hard copy. It turned out that the microfilm contained not only the book in question, but also a 387-page manuscript letter book, covering Macintosh&#8217;s outgoing correspondence between 1763 and 1772. This was complete new to me and something I might otherwise have missed; even with the manuscript number I can&#8217;t seem to find it listed in the catalogue. This discovery\u00a0means, I think, that a return visit to Avignon is inevitable (which is, perhaps, no bad thing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is thrilling, if not a little overwhelming, to be back in Avignon and to be fully immersed in the archives. My main task this week is to put together a working catalogue of Macintosh&#8217;s library. 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