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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/12/1
Title:: Arabic Recitations Notebook
Scope & Content:: Recitations in Arabic and Malay. Some Gundal script. Possibly created in the 1930s. Physical characteristics of original material: Pages are brown. No cover, binding is falling apart, fragile. Handwriting in black and red ink. Extent and format of original material: manuscript, 142 folios, Gnei...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and Malay
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 145 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/15/1
Title:: Sinthaby Badulla Diary
Scope & Content:: The notebook gives details of home remedies, grocery lists, land purchase details, marriages and deaths. Some text in Gundal script. Physical characteristics of original material: Pages are brown, pages falling out, no cover, a few loose pages. A patch of ink running through many pages. Dimensi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, Malay, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/16/1
Title:: A Grammar of the Malayan Language
Scope & Content:: A copy of the well known Malay Grammar by William Marsden, published in London in 1812. Some text in Gundal. Physical characteristics of original material: In good condition. Bound with a hard cover, blue cloth spine. Dimensions: L 26 W 21 H 2. Extent and format of original material: printed ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Malay
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 290 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/16/2
Title:: Arabic Praises for the Prophet
Scope & Content:: A beautifully illuminated manuscript in Arabic, including a maulud text. Final pages have some interlinear Malay translation. Some text in Gundal. Left unfinished Physical characteristics of original material: In good condition. Bound with a hard cover. Writing and colors mostly clear. Dimensio...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and Malay
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 136 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/17
Title:: M.J Weerabangsa Collection
Scope & Content:: Several manuscripts and family notes Custodial history: All material belonged to current owner's father, M.M.G Weerabangsa. The family traces its ancestry to Dato Dewa Sinthakirthy of Sumenep, Indonesia.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, Malay, and Tamil
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 565 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/17/1
Title:: Kitab Nujum
Scope & Content:: Astrology book. End missing. Malay, Arabic, Arabu-Tamil, English Physical characteristics of original material: Small brown notebook – hard cover, pages separated at the spine. Dimensions: L 11 W 6.5 H 0.5. Extent and format of original material: manuscript, 94 folios. Custodial history: Man...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, Malay, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1930-
Extent:: 100 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP609/17/3
Title:: Angkatan Menulis Ism
Scope & Content:: Prayers and recitations for a range of occasions, many to be used for protection (i.e guarding one's body and property from danger). Some text in Gundal. Creation dates: unknown, but written in notebook from Girls High School in Kandy which may provide an indication Physical characteristics of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Malay, and Tamil
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

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