Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP769/3
Title:: Montserrat National Trust archives [1857-1993]
Scope & Content:: Description: Montserrat National Trust archives. Extent and format of original material: 6 series.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1857-1993
Extent:: 1404 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP769/4
Title:: Montserrat Public Library archives [1790-1904]
Scope & Content:: Description: The Archives contains a variety of government documents (primarily 20th century correspondence from the Montserrat Commissioner’s Office) and court records (including 18th century Court of King’s Bench and Common Pleas, 19th century Court of Queen’s Bench and Common Pleas, and 20th c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1790-1904
Extent:: 1308 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP769/5
Title:: Records [1841-1930]
Scope & Content:: Extent and format of original material: 1 book, 22 manuscripts.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1841-1930
Extent:: 400 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP781/1
Title:: Santipur and its neighbourhood: text and image production history from early modern Bengal through public and private collections
Scope & Content:: The project is a digitisation programme of all available rare books from the earliest time till 1950s and in Bengali language housed in selected libraries. Once the project is over the materials will be available to scholars both in-house and through http access. The original materials are locate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Maithili, Panjabi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 8th century-18th century
Extent:: 291,035 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP782/1
Title:: Sierra Leone Public Archives: Records of Colonial Governors, Police and Court Officials in Freetown and Neighbouring Villages
Scope & Content:: This project focused on preserving rare archival sources in the Sierra Leone Public Archives through digital photography, and builds on the digitisation programme undertaken through the earlier project EAP443. The focus of digitisation was on sources from the nineteenth century relating to the p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1818-1901
Extent:: 42743 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP783/1
Title:: Digitisation, preservation and dissemination of parochial books and matrimonial records prior to the establishment of the Civil Registry in Peru (1900-1940)
Scope & Content:: Parish books, including baptism, marriage and death registers, dating from 1900 to 1940 of the parishes that make up the Diocese of Huacho: the provinces of Sings, Huaral, Huaura, Barranca, Oyon and Cajatambo, north of Lima, and which have a population of over half a million inhabitants. The book...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Spanish
Date Range:: 1900-1940
Extent:: 24132 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/1
Title:: Gyankar Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection of manuscripts belongs to Mr. Gyankar Vajracharya who lives in Bhaktapur. He is a traditional Newari painter by profession. He is very much aware on significance of tangible heritages such as manuscripts. His entire collection is developed by himself. This collection has Buddhist...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 6825 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/2
Title:: Suprasanna Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection belongs to a son of an eminent Pandit from Patan. The Pandit was well known ritual performer and a scholar of Buddhism. His son inherited those manuscripts after his demise. These are Buddhist manuscripts mainly dealing with Sutra, Stotra, Rituals, Puja Vidhi, Tantra, Tantric son...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-19th century
Extent:: 1096 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/3
Title:: Dev Vajra Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection is inherited from ancestors of several generations. The present owner is not much aware of the significance of manuscripts in this collection. This the present owner belonged to a Buddhist family, and also the family of a ritual performing Vajracharya priest, its manuscripts most...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 855 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/4
Title:: Prabhakar Vajracharya Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection is another important collection in Bhaktapur. It mostly has Hindu texts and a few are Buddhist. In addition, it also has historical, Ayurvedic and other non religious manuscripts in this collection. The present owner inherited all the texts from his father. It is not properly car...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 1475 TIFF images

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