Project / Collection: Bamum script and archives project / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/535
Title:: History of the Late King NJOYA and his Queens, along with a list of men and women, with notesby both Nji MAMA and the Sub-Colonial Administrator known as TAPON in Kugham [30 Apr 1937]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 6; Pages: 10 (some of them blank); Measurements: 25.5cm x 17.6cm; Dates 30 April 1937; Script: Lewa (first script), Bima (second script), Akauku Nyiet, Akauku Mfemfe, and roman script(for transcribing Bamum names and French language); Condition: Good; Comments: Written in an exercise book...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 30 Apr 1937
Extent:: 10 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/536
Title:: Letter to Nji MAMA from his son MFUAPON Hassan in Foumbot with his excuse for why he couldnot come to see Nji Mama in Foumban as requested [05 Oct 1947]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16.4cm x 15.8cm; Dates 5 October 1947; Script: Roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments: Written on a receipt for the Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Woermann Linie Shippingcompany.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 05 Oct 1947
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/537
Title:: Large Map of the Bamum Kingdom with Identifications in Bamum Script by Nji MAMA
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 63cm x 40cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor condition; Comments: Nji Mama is regarded as a great map maker of the Bamum Kingdom, for which thiselaborately drawn map provides evidence
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 1 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/538
Title:: Official French Colonial Map of the Subdivision of Foumbot [01 Jan 1958]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 28.3cm x 23.3cm; Dates January 1958; Script: Roman script (for transcribing African place names); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 01 Jan 1958
Extent:: 1 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/539
Title:: Letter to Nji MAMA from ABDULAYI regarding the arrest of Ibrahi with a packet of matches
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21cm x 14.8cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe with some slight writing in roman script (Bamum language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/540
Title:: Advertisement for an imported Alcoholic Menthol Medicine [c 1913]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 4 (folded into 4 pages); Measurements: 25cm x 18.6cm; Dates ca. 1913; Script: Roman script (French and English) and Arabic script; Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: c 1913
Extent:: 4 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/541
Title:: Letter in French to Nji MAMA from his son Issofu in Douala regarding the illness of Salamatu andchildren [08 Aug 1946]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21.3cm x 13.9cm; Dates 8 August 1946; Script: Roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 08 Aug 1946
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/542
Title:: Letter to Nji MAMA in Njintüt from his son PEKEKÙE NJOYA Joshua informing his father that heis in Douala [27 Mar 1933]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22.1cm x 16.8cm; Dates 27 March 1933; Script: Roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 27 Mar 1933
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/543
Title:: Letter to Nji MAMA from his friend DIARY Aly, a trader in Nkongsamba, regarding the palmnuttrade [08 Apr 1905]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 2; Pages: 3 (includes recycled envelope; that is, one that had apparently been used for a differentrecipient at another time); Measurements: 22.1cm x 17cm; Dates 1925; Script: Roman script (French language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 08 Apr 1905
Extent:: 3 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/12/544
Title:: Letter to Nji MAMA from GARBA Georges, Second Class Corporal at the Prison of New-Bell-Douala, regarding money that he could not send [ 28 September 1932]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 31.7cm x 20.7cm; Dates 28 September 1932; Script: Roman script (Bamum language); Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1932
Extent:: 1 TIFF images

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