Historical scene depicting the battle between the Hausa and the Fulani during the time of KingMbuombuo
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 30cm x 20.3cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: this is a reproduction, not original
Leaves: 2; Pages: 4; Measurements: 21cm x 16.7cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe; Condition: Good; stapled; Comments: This document has been used by the Bamum palace to settle disputes concerninglineage claims, most recently (2006) involving a dispute about seating arrangements at thepalace...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 21cm x 16cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe; Condition: Good; stapled; Comments: This document has been used by the Bamum palace to settle disputes concerninglineage claims, most recently (2006) involving a dispute about seating arrangements at thepalace f...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21cm x 16.4cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe; Condition: Good; stapled; Comments: This document has been used by the Bamum palace to settle disputes concerninglineage claims, most recently (2006) involving a dispute about seating arrangements at thepalace...
Histories of various palace lineages and records of warriors [c 1940]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 4; Pages: 8; Measurements: 21cm x 16.7cm; Dates ca. 1940s; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: This document has been known and employed in disputes in the palace for severaldecades. It was at some point removed from the palace without authorization and ended up inthe hands ...
Digital images of records created and accumulated by the Royal Bamum Palace since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century under the direction of Sultan Ibrahim Njoya (r. 1889-1933), Sultan Seidou Njimolouh (r. 1933-1992), and the current Sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya (r. 1992-present). Mat...
Register of Births. Foumban Region. 1912-1919. [1912-1919]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 140 + covers; Pages: 280 + covers; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1912-1919; Script: Akauku Nyiet in black ink; Condition: Poor with torn pages and some water damage; pages are numbered in Bamum script as usual but note that blue roman script (that is, Hindu-Arabic) numerals have been ...
Register of Judgments. Mambue Region. 1919. [02 Apr 1905]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 22 + cover; Pages: 43 + cover; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1919; Script: Akauku Nyiet in black ink; Condition: Good; pages are numbered in Bamum script as usual but note that blue roman script(that is, Hindu-Arabic) numerals have been added in ball point pen. The addition of this bl...
Register of Judgments concerning Palace servants. 1912-1919. [1912-1919]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 67 + cover; Pages: 134 + cover; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1912-1919; Script: Akauku Nyiet in black ink; Condition: Good; added to the original document are markings in blue and red ink, as well as pencil, made at some point prior to the commencement of work by the Bamum Scripts an...
Register of Judgments. Nkoundoum Region. 1913-1919. [1913-1919]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 30 + cover; Pages: 60 + cover; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1913-1919; Script: Akauku Nyiet in black ink; Condition: Good with some decomposition and water staining; added to the original document are markings in blue ink made at some point prior to the commencement of work by the Ba...