The colonial reports and correspondence as well as court registers held in the Cercle archives of Kita (Mali) attest to the establishment of numerous freed slave communities in the region in the aftermath of the French colonial abolition of slavery in 1905. This collection contains documentation...
This collection is very valuable because it is composed of unique materials which do not exist in other archives or libraries and their preservation is of utmost importance for researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences. Most of publications are printed in the middle of the Great...
These publications are very valuable and rare. Most of them are printed in the middle of the war, on foreign territory, in hardly accessible machines, during the time when there was a shortage of printing paper, in low circulations (a part of the book circulation burnt in a fire in Thessaloniki)...
Considering the fact that in the pre-war Yugoslavia the legal system was not unitary (there were six different legal systems in one country), law books were printed in small numbers, only for a certain number of judges and lawyers. The founders of the Lazić Library were lawyers more than 600 yea...
Collection of laws, contracts and agreements on consolidated loan of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians [1924]
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Collection of laws, contracts and agreements on consolidated loan of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians = Recueil des lois, contrats et conventions relatifs aux emprunts du Royaume des Serbes, Croates et Slovènes [1924]. Author: Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca. Extent and format of...
Proceedings of Meetings of Delegates of the three Tamil Missions 1838-1841
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The manuscript is inaccurately titled. It consists of letters written by two successive secretaries of Foreign Correspondence for the ABCFM, Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) and Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), addressed to the American Ceylon Mission between 1862 and 1879. These letters contain general in...
This file contains letters written by E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), Secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. The letters contain information on the mission's doings, financial details, estimates for financial burden of the following years, etc. Physical characteristics of original mat...
Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) Collection
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This description comes in part from Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid for the JDCSI's archive, published in 2005. This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials "from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Forei...