Yungdrung Bön Library Collection, Menri Monastery, Dolanji, India
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A collection of Bön manuscripts and tsakali held at Yungdrung Library, Menri Monastery in Dolanji. Unfortunately, it was not possible for the cataloguing of this project was not completed. Known copies of manuscripts have been removed but there may still be some duplication within the 164 files....
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Kingstown, St Vincent
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The Eastern Caribbean Court House, St Vincent, holds numerous historic manuscript documents connected with the colonial administration of the island. The earliest records date from 1763, when St Vincent became a British possession. Among the documents are Deed Books (discussed below at Series lev...
This collection consists of 22 palm leaf bundles. They contain information related to poems and traditional medicine. The poems relate to local deities, astrology, witchcraft, grammatical commentaries (nikanTu), songs from the Kuravan community (kuravanji) and tamil lexicon. The traditional medic...
This collection contains 3 palm leaf bundles. The documents address issues such as religions, poems and astrology. This collection comprises 2 series : (1) Astrology, (2) Poems These documents are undated. Dates of original material: Not given. Extent and format of original material: The collecti...
This collection contains 220 handwritten, printed and typed paper documents addressing a variety issues of the Uttukuli Zamin and the estate such as communications, acccounts transactions, notes of machinery shops, astrology, land matters, notice on election campaign and house tax receipts. The c...
This collection contains 1 copperplate and 2 palm leaf bundles. These documents are addressing issues related to tax and devotional poems. This collection comprises 2 series : (1) religious poems and (2) Taxes. Some documents are undated others contains dates in the Tamil lunar calendar. Dates of...
This collection contains 47 handwritten and printed paper documents and 1 copper plate regarding various issues like security rights (kaval), petition, summon, order and receipt documents. This collection comprises 5 series: (1) common land, (2) legal documents, (3) petitions, (4) receipts, (5) s...
This collection contains one copperplate and one paper documents. These documents are addressing issues related to sati practise, renovation of temple and patta related issues. This collection comprises 2 series: (1) agreement for renovation of temple; (2) land patta details. The copperplateis da...
This collection contains 8 printed and hand written paper documents belonging to Gopalakrishnan from Karuppatevanpatti These documentsinclude to land patta,, land tax payment receipt, land survery records, family property partition and settlement. This collection comprises 1 series: (1) land rela...