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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Sinhalese Subject Accounting and Finance

1. EAP981/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1
Title:
Jaffna Bishop’s House Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection contains diverse types of documents; handwritten, bound registers and account books; letters and correspondence; and printed books and paper clippings. They cover the period between 1775 and 1948. They consist of rare documents like personal memoirs; chronicles; account books; co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1500-1999
Extent:
111,196 TIFF images

2. EAP981/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/1
Title:
Letters and Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This series contains letters and varieties of documents. They bear testimony of the activity and functioning of the Jaffna Diocese, also on pilgrimage and festivals, public instruction, various reports to the Bishop's office and to the government, purchase of land, schools etc. This series cont...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1857-1947
Extent:
42,642 TIFF images

3. EAP981/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/2
Title:
Sermons Documents
Scope & Content:
This series contains preparatory copies for sermons, preaches for retreats, commentaries on Tamil writings. These writings are in French, often with Sinhala or Tamil terminology inside the French text. This series contains the following 37 files: EAP981/1/2/1: Sermons, prayers, retreats, descri...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1868-1934
Extent:
8,613 TIFF images

4. EAP981/1/2/37

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/2/37
Title:
Notes, prayers, sermons, list of names, and accounts (1910-1919)
Scope & Content:
1910-1919. Contains notes, prayers, sermons, list of nams, accounts of various srts. Physical characteristics: 21 x 16.5 cm size. Author(s): Not mentioned. Scribe: Not mantioned.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1910-1919
Extent:
564 TIFF images

5. EAP981/1/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/15
Title:
Printed Documents and Books
Scope & Content:
This series contains printed documents and books in English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese and Tamil. These documents are about Circular letters, rules and regulations of Catholic Churches, appointment leeters of different Church officers, pastoral letters, Catholic education in Ceylon [S...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1860-1970
Extent:
12,453 TIFF images

6. EAP1222/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/10
Title:
Series 10 - Correspondance and documents related to school matters
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
742

7. EAP1222/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/12
Title:
Series 12 - Letters addressed to Fr. Emilianuspillai, Vicar General and Administrator of the Roman Catholic schools, at the Bishop's House, Jaffna.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
144

8. EAP1222/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/13
Title:
Series 13 - Collections of letters classified and assembled by Fr. Batayron (beginning of the 20th Century) under green, hard binding, with Table of Content established by the same Batayron. Additional such collections are mentioned in other series.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
120

9. EAP1222/1/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/18
Title:
Series 18 - Miscellaneous letters and documents: after 1918 (period after Mgr. Joulain and until 1948)
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
French, Italian, Latin, Sinhalese, Spanish, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
74

10. EAP1222/1/18/76

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/18/76
Title:
[A collection of invoices and contractors' receipts addressed to Fr. Guitot, Procurator General of the Jaffna Bishop's House. Some documents concern the building of a library or the purchase of Mass wine, animal food, and bulls for bullock carts. (1935-1948) ]
Scope & Content:
Extent: 1 set containing 60 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-35cm, W-25.7cm, D-1.5cm.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Sinhalese
Date Range:
1935-1948
Extent:
373