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Netherlands: Portrait of Cornelis Cort, 1649/1694*

Austrian Netherlands: An Imperial Edict, 2nd June 1725*

England: A letter to Lord Macartney, 25th September 1780*

France: "La Patrie en Danger," 11th July 1792*

France: An Act of the Legislative Assembly, 29th August 1792*

France: General Dumouriez defects to the Austrians, 4th-5th April 1793

France: Death and Confiscation of Property, 9th May 1794

France: The Thermidorian Reaction, 27th July 1794

Ireland: Lease of premises in Belfast, 4th February 1846*

Ireland: A military power of attorney, 15th July 1865*

NOTE: I have lately (as of Novr. 2016) made some small but not insignificant improvements to my techniques and so I would consider everything scanned before that date to fall somewhat short of my current standards. I'll get around to re-doing everything, but not quickly. Anything I consider below-standard is marked here with a *.

Technical aspects: My scanner is (barely) A4 size so pretty much everything here has been scanned in multiple parts and joined together (up to ten for the largest and most contorted items). Of course I try my best to conceal the areas where two separate scans meet, but sometimes this can't be done perfectly — so my apologies in advance for that when it's obviously apparent.

Another thing to note is that, when scanning these items, I'm concerned to bend and fold them as little as possible — this stuff is actually a lot more durable than one might imagine (especially the vellum objects) but, naturally, I see no point in assuming un-necessary risks by aggressively contorting the things. The most obvious manifestation of this is that, when dealing with a multiple-page document, I won't open it to scan the cover page (or the back page, if there is one). So cover pages, being scanned with inner pages behind them, will come out a little stronger in colour than the inner pages will — the inner pages add a bit of weight to the colour of the cover page. I don't consider this a problem in any way (especially as, in practice, when considering the front page of an document, one doesn't hold it out perpendicular to the other pages and inspect it thusly) but visually it's a little noticeable and so perhaps warrants an explanation.