{"id":832,"date":"2020-10-08T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=832"},"modified":"2020-10-08T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T21:23:22","slug":"the-online-inventory-of-macintoshs-confiscated-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"The (online) inventory of Macintosh&#8217;s confiscated library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory-1024x765.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory-624x466.png 624w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Inventory.png 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Inventory of Macintosh&#8217;s confiscated library. <em>Archives d\u00e9partementales de Vaucluse<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/v-earchives.vaucluse.fr\/series\/instrument_recherche\/archives\/FRAD084_1L_461\/\">1 L 461<\/a>, fol. 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a number of years I have been working to reconstruct Macintosh&#8217;s private library, which was seized by the authorities during the French Revolution. My work on this was undertaken using the inventory drawn up in Macintosh&#8217;s home by the individuals charged with taking possession of his books. That document (1 L 452 in the archive) is somewhat rough and ready and translating and transcribing it was rather tricky (although I was, thankfully, helped in this task greatly by <a href=\"https:\/\/research-information.bris.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/elizabeth-v-haines\">Dr Elizabeth Haines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookes.ac.uk\/templates\/pages\/staff.aspx?wid=&amp;op=full&amp;uid=p0085285\">Dr Emily Hayes<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed today that, since my last visit, the Archives d\u00e9partementales de Vaucluse has made available a digitised version of that same inventory, albeit a rather tidier and more legible version (<a href=\"http:\/\/v-earchives.vaucluse.fr\/series\/instrument_recherche\/archives\/FRAD084_1L_461\/\">1 L 461<\/a> in the archive). It must have been written up later at the point at which the inventory was handed over to the district archivist, Jean-\u00c9tienne&nbsp;N\u00e9ry. It would, of course, have been good to know about this version a few years ago (it might have saved a few headaches), but it&#8217;s nevertheless good to know that it exists and is easily accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a number of years I have been working to reconstruct Macintosh&#8217;s private library, which was seized by the authorities during the French Revolution. My work on this was undertaken using the inventory drawn up in Macintosh&#8217;s home by the individuals charged with taking possession of his books. That document (1 L 452 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}