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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP810/1/1
Title:: Manuscripts and items from Kanniyakumari District (collection not finished)
Scope & Content:: This series is composed of manuscripts coming from Kanniyakumari district. The manuscripts are composed of palm leaves written with the help of stylus on the two sides. The items concern instruments to cut out palm leaves and to write.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 24077 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP810/1/2
Title:: Manuscripts and items from Virundhunagar district
Scope & Content:: This series Mohana_VN is composed of 3 manuscripts coming from Virudhunagar.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1355 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP810/2/1
Title:: Manuscripts from Chennai (CH)
Scope & Content:: The manuscripts are composed of palm leaves written on the two sides. The scripts were written with the help of a stylus. The manuscripts of this series CH comprise 1 from Chennai (CH_MSS16), and 15 whose the place of origin is unknown. The majority of these 16 manuscripts deals with medical sub...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1700-1940
Extent:: 2350 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP810/2/2
Title:: Manuscript from Salem (SA)
Scope & Content:: The series SA_MSS comprises 1 manuscript related to veterinary medicine of elephants. The manuscript is composed of palm leaves written with a stylus on the two sides. This series contains the following files: EAP810/2/2/1: கஜ வைத்தியம், 1870-1930;
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1870-1930
Extent:: 115 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP810/2/3
Title:: Manuscript from Kanniyakumari District (KK)
Scope & Content:: The series KK_MSS comprises a manuscript which belonged to Dr Arul. lt concerns Christianity, a religion very present in this region which experienced mass conversions during the colonial period.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1840-1940
Extent:: 227 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/5/1
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: A series of 148 files relating to the life, work and family of Sir Alexander Johnston (1775–1849), the third Chief Justice of Ceylon and a famous orientalist. Johnston was known for pursuing a number of administrative reforms within the British government including the introduction of trial by ju...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1781-1878
Extent:: 406 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/1
Title:: The 1937 Series
Scope & Content:: Named The 1937 series because Professor Bernard Bate believed the materials were organized and labeled after 1937. Although only one file was located and digitized by EAP971, the original series includes primarily letterbooks and tabāl books (manuscripts circulated amongst members of the mission...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1816-1937
Extent:: 446 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/2
Title:: JCSIUC Minutes, 1904-1947
Scope & Content:: These volumes represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of bindings, labels and subject matter being the minutes of the Jaffna Council of the South Indian United Church. Size and dimensions of original material: 10 files.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1904-1947
Extent:: 326 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/3
Title:: Uncategorized Manuscript Notebooks
Scope & Content:: This series includes a series of notebooks relating to women's organizations and schools that were found in a single bundle along with some other printed books on Uduvil Girls' College. It also includes a unique, previously lost manuscript by C.F. Schwartz, renown eighteenth-century Protestant m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1790-1966
Extent:: 374 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/4
Title:: Uncategorized Letters and Letterbooks
Scope & Content:: The original series contained twentieth-century letters from the ABCFM, business office letters, and letter fragments between missionary organizations and sent to and from Ceylon and South India. Size and dimensions of original material: 3 files (2 volumes & 6 related folders held in 2 boxe...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1890-1973
Extent:: 1404 Tiff images

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