Digitised Content Platform: Endangered Archives Programme / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP535/1
Title:: National Archives Kaduna, Arabic Manuscript Collected from Northern Nigeria [18th century-20th century]
Scope & Content:: The Arabic Manuscript Collection range in date from the early 18th century to the early colonial era or specifically to the 1930s, and they include local chronicles, private correspondence, legal documents, and religious literature. Within the Arabic Manuscript Collection there are series of reco...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and Hausa
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 4 series with 63 sub-series 647 files and 15778 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP535/2
Title:: National Archives Kaduna, Secretariat Northern Province (SNP) Collection [1900-1924]
Scope & Content:: The Collection consists of circular letters to various colonial administrators, official assessment reports, ethnographic reports, and numerous annual numerical files dealing with diverse subjects like agriculture, religion and slavery. Although the SNP Collections focuses on the period between 1...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1900-1924
Extent:: 17 images in TIFF format

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP535/3
Title:: National Archives Kaduna, Provincial Offices Collection [Records copied deal mainly with 1900-1931. The very few records in this collection that deal with the period after 1931 to 1953 do not seem to contain personal information but mainly deal with such themes as land use and slavery.]
Scope & Content:: The Collection consists of circular letters to various colonial administrators, official assessment reports, ethnographic reports, and numerous annual numerical files dealing with diverse subjects like agriculture, religion and slavery. The materials copied in this project deal mainly with the pe...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1900-1953
Extent:: 60 images in TIFF format

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP540/1
Title:: Shrines of Accra: Witchcraft trial records at Nai, Korle and Sakumo We, Accra, Ghana [1984-2013]
Scope & Content:: A collection of ledgers and folders containing information about trials held at the shrine of the sea goddess, Nae, in Accra, Ghana. The documents include trial records, correspondence, and related papers. The hard copies are stored in the library shelves of the Nae We Shrine, and are under prote...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1984-2013
Extent:: 14 series with 15029 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP541/1
Title:: Tamale Region - Records from Northern Regional Administration [1909-1988]
Scope & Content:: Description: The material from this collection comprises documents from the Northern Regional Administration. These archives were created and maintained by the Chief Commissioners and District Commissioners during the course of administering the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast from 1911 to...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909-1988
Extent:: 1 fonds containing 5 Series of records groups consisting of 2,742 files.

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP548/1
Title:: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll paintings (thangka) and other other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Dorje Phuntsog [Mid 19th century-21st century]
Scope & Content:: The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Meme Dorje Phuntsog. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century-21st century
Extent:: 283 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP548/2
Title:: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll paintings (thangka) and other other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye [19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:: The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsering Tobgye. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern west...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:: 666 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP548/3
Title:: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll paintings (thangka) and other other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Chhettan Dorje [Mid 19th century-20th century]
Scope & Content:: The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Meme Chhettan Dorje. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 703 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP550/1
Title:: 昆明瑶族手稿收藏 [Yao manuscripts collection in Kunming]
Scope & Content:: This collection contains around 200 volumes of Yao manuscripts. All manuscripts have been used and kept by Yao people in southern Yunnan, western Guangxi and northern Vietnam for generations. They are religious texts, partly of localized Daoist and partly of indigenous beliefs, in nature. They we...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 202 electronic folders containing 16,839 images in TIFF format

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP556/1
Title:: Laboratory of Studies in Archaeography Collection of Manuscripts and Old-Printed books [16th-20th centuries]
Scope & Content:: Description: Old-printed books and manuscripts of XVI - XX centuries, which were situated in large territories of Urals and Western Siberia (from Vyatka to Tobolsk). Extent and format of original material: 35 volumes, comprising 12 printed books and 23 manuscripts.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Church Slavic and Russian
Date Range:: 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 35 series with 20794 Tiff images

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