Subject: Biography - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/16
Title:: Ibn ibādi
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was composed by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. It contains two pamphlets. The first is about the life of Ahmad Ibn Ibādi popularly known as Ceerno Hammadi Mali Si. The author wrote the biography of Ibn Ibādi, a blind man from Senegal's Fūta region to show that there had been non-Arab knowl...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1977
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/17
Title:: دق مئجم ء ما
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is composed by Mountaga Muhammad al-Ghālī Bā. It is composed of five qasīda poems. The first poem praises the Prophet Muhammad. The second poem is also composed in praise of Prophet Muhammad. The third poem praises Alhajj Umar. The fourth talks about the yearly pilgrimage of Sene...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Pulaar
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1245/1/53
Title:: الحمد لله وهداهو
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a mixed collection of biographical and mystical notes authored by Muhammad al-Ghāli Bah. The biography details the life of the author's father named Mamadu Al-Amin Bah. Ce manuscrit est une collection mixte de notes biographiques et mystiques rédigées par Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1256/1
Title:: Collection of Colonial Period Newspapers
Scope & Content:: This is a collection of newspapers published during the colonial period in Malawi formelry Nyasaland. The collection comprises of publications from 1895 to 1965. The newspaper titles are Nyasaland Times, Msimbi and Nkhani Za Nyasaland. Extent: Acollection of newspapers containing 12,894images. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chichewa, English, Tumbuka, and Yao
Date Range:: 1939-1962
Extent:: 15098

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1256/1/1
Title:: The Nyasaland Times
Scope & Content:: This is a collection of the oldest Newspapers ever published in the country. The Newspaper was founded in 1895 with the name Central African Planter and later on in 1900 the name was changed to Nyasaland Times. In 1964 after Malawi gained its independence, the name was again changed to The Times...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chichewa and English
Date Range:: 1945-1961
Extent:: 9879

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1256/1/1/11
Title:: The Nyasaland Times Vol.44 July-December 1941
Scope & Content:: This ia a bound collection of newspapers published between July and December 1941. Contains various news from around the world including innovations like creation of artificial fog, news about appointment of Lord Beaverbrook who was minister of Supply for artilery, news on war like bombing of Ge...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chichewa and English
Date Range:: 3 Jul 1941-30 Dec 1941
Extent:: 414

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/5
Title:: The Keprabon Collection, Surakarta
Scope & Content:: This collections largely consists of notebooks that were used at the Public teacher's college, known as the Normal or Normaal School, in Surakarta. This school offered two-years programmes to young Javanese students around the age of fifteen to prepare them for a teaching post in indigenous prim...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese, Dutch, English, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:: 1887-1970
Extent:: 2061

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/5/2/4
Title:: H. Rijara Pidana
Scope & Content:: Unlike suggested by the title, this volume contains notes on various topics that are summarised in the schedule found on the first page. The notebook starts with typography, moves on to the Greec classics, and then treats biography, accounting, agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry and g...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 46

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/6
Title:: The Wirobrajan Collection, Yogyakarta
Scope & Content:: This collection runs the gamut from Chinese epics to cookbooks. It covers the administration of several small entrepreneurs, often of Chinese origin. It also contain notebooks from colonial schools for indigenous and Oriental (often Chinese or Arab) students and Chinese schools which were abolis...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:: 1899-2000
Extent:: 18288

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