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1. EAP450/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP450/4
Title:
Seenar Samath collection of Malay songs [late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Description: 2 typed Malay pantuns were digitised for the pilot project. This is part of a larger collection of other documents include letters, magazines and articles concerning Malays in Sri Lanka. There are also articles supplied for ‘Terang’ magazine, as former owner, Nizam Samath, was editor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Malay, and Sinhalese
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
electronic folder containing 6 TIFF images

2. EAP450/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP450/4/1
Title:
Malay poems (pantong) [late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Description: There are 2 typed Malay pantuns. They are in the Roman script. The same songs are written in the Sinhala script in 2 pages and in Roman script in another page. The collection seems to be recent. The 2 typed pantuns in Roman scripts are perhaps old. But the others versions are re-writ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Malay and Sinhalese
Date Range:
12 Feb 2012
Extent:
6 TIFF images

3. EAP609/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/3
Title:
Java Lane Mosque
Scope & Content:
A range of documents relating to the Java Lane Mosque including deeds, minutes, marriage registrars, letters, lists and more. There are documents about houses belonging to the mosque which were taken over by the government in the 1970s. Some compensation money was received and was spent on renov...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Sinhalese
Date Range:
1876-1927
Extent:
102 TIFF images

4. EAP609/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/3/1
Title:
Java Lane 1876 Deed
Scope & Content:
Title deed of Masjidul Jamiah Jawatta Malay burial ground deed no. 4209 of 22.12.1876 Physical characteristics of original material: Some running ink, much of writing still clean, some holes in paper, some pages are very dark. Extent and format of original material: collated documents, 57 folio...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Sinhalese
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
60 TIFF images

5. EAP609/21

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/21
Title:
Bintan Chunchie Collection
Scope & Content:
A poem and booklet of recitations
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, English, Malay, and Sinhalese
Date Range:
1990s-2005
Extent:
150 TIFF images

6. EAP609/21/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/21/2
Title:
Selected Suras and Recitals
Scope & Content:
A booklet of suras and recitations compiled in memory of the late Nona Fareena Hannan who passed away in 2005. Contains a Dua ul-Slamat in the last two pages. Arabic, Arabu-Tamil, Sinhala, English, Sri Lankan Malay. Physical characteristics of original material: Green cover, well kept. Extent a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, English, Malay, and Sinhalese
Date Range:
2005
Extent:
148 TIFF images

7. EAP609/28

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/28
Title:
Tuan Roshan Cassim Collection
Scope & Content:
Notes about family, property deeds.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1894-20th century
Extent:
92 TIFF images

8. EAP609/28/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP609/28/2
Title:
Property Deeds
Scope & Content:
House and land deeds. The house deed was drawn in 1894 and the land deed in 1901. The house and land belonged to Mr. Cassim's great grandmother, Gnei Baba Noor Sabina Cassim (father’s grandmother). Her husband was Mr. Maas Tuan Amjadeen. Sabina Cassim’s father was Mr. Baba Noor Muhamath Cassim w...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sinhalese
Date Range:
1894-1901
Extent:
10 TIFF images

9. EAP700/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP700/1
Title:
Jaffna Bishop’s House Collection, Sri Lanka [1850-1930]
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of manuscripts (with some printed documents) dated from 1850 to 1930. They relate the history of the missions or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate missionaries (O.M.I.). The French congregation of the O.M.I. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1850-1930
Extent:
16,944 Tiff images

10. EAP700/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP700/1/5
Title:
5. Sermons and Commentaries [1850-1900]
Scope & Content:
5. Sermons and Commentaries: Contain 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. Extent, format and physcial characteristics of original material: One volume of...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1850-1900
Extent:
1853 Tiff images