Subject: Bamun language - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/15
Title:: Shümom Vocabulary
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 28cm x 22 cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; torn edges; Comments: This document is a repeat of APRB 18 due to confusion about organizational procedure for archiving documents by our team working in the palace which occurred early in proje...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/16
Title:: History of NCHARE YEN end MFONTE
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 2; Pages: 4; Measurements: 21.2cm x 14cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; torn edges; Comments: We learn from the document that Mfonté is a local ruler who submitted to NCHARE YEN, the warrior-king in Bamum history who founded the first dynasty.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 4 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/17
Title:: History of Kouripin, a Powerful Warrior
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 28cm x 18.2cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; torn pages; Comments: The document says that Kouripin had the power of 1000 men
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 1 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/18
Title:: Akauku Mfemfe Syllabary Key and Numerals 0-9
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 17.5cm x 11cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; torn pages; Comments: The first five lines are the standard characters of the final version of the Akauku script (known as Mfemfe) in the order of recitation (read from left to right, beginnin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 1 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/19
Title:: Letter from Mfon Musa to Pafumnjati asking him to send food [c 1930s? ]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 16.3cm x 13cm; Dates ca.1930s? (letter not dated); Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: Mfon Musa, who is living in exile out of the Bamum Kingdom, is asserting that he is the rightful Bamum heir to the throne as successor to King Njoya
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/20
Title:: History of Nguekuen, the Enemy of King Nsangou
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 2; Pages: 4; Measurements: 22cm x 14cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; torn pages; Comments: The text says that when Nsangou became the King of the Bamum, he killed Nguekuen and used his skull as a drinking cup
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 4 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/21
Title:: Record of a Njangi
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 9.5cm x 10.5cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Good; Comments: A Njangi is a communal savings group
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1910-1946
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/2/22
Title:: Book of History [19 July 1911]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 25; Pages: 50; Measurements: 27cm x 17cm; Dates 19 July 1911; Script: Akauku Mfemfe with Western Arabic digits; Condition: Good; Comments:
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 19 Jul 1911
Extent:: 50 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/3
Title:: Nji Hamza Collection [1929]
Scope & Content:: Digital images of a manuscript and related items inherited by Nji Hamza, an Islamic scholar and son of King Ibrahim Njoya.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1929
Extent:: 2 files consisting of 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP051/1/1/3/1
Title:: Calendar of 1929 [1929]
Scope & Content:: Leaves: 19; Pages: 38; Measurements: 8cm x 7cm; Dates 1929; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Brittle; tied with small rope; Comments: The calendar follows the modern seven day week calendar as opposed to the traditional Bamum calendar which has eight days in the week.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bamun
Date Range:: 1929
Extent:: 38 TIFF images Only have 20 images

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