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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/2/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 30

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1
Title:: Jaffna Bishop’s House Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of documents and manuscripts (including some typed letters and some printed documents) dating from the period 1750 to 1950. They reflect the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1775-1948
Extent:: 110642

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9
Title:: Series 9 - Collections of Returns (related to schools, churches, paschal communion…)
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1775-1948
Extent:: 68

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9/17
Title:: [Printed documents concerning Ecclesiastical Returns on the State of the Diocese of Jaffna (schools, priests, Catholic population…) under the Jaffna Bishops Mgr. Brault and Mgr. Guyomar, covering the period 1921-1937. ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 26 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-34.7cm, W-22.4cm, D-1.5cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1921-1937
Extent:: 420

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1251/1
Title:: "The Barbadian" Newspaper Collection, 1822-1861
Scope & Content:: “The Barbadian” newspaper was printed in Bridgetown, Barbados, between 1822-1861. These are the extant copies preserved at the Barbados Archives. The volumes were previously kept at the National Library and at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, and were transferred to the Archives towar...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1822-1861
Extent:: 13579 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):: EAP1260/76
Title:: சரஸ்வதி வல்லிபுரம் சேகரிப்பு
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 3 files. It includes both witchcraft texts. Extent: 246.0. Custodial history: This manuscript collection is found in the custody of Saraswati Vallipuram, who currently resides in Katsenai, Amplantura, Batticaloa. She said she got it through her father. She said that th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1801-1899
Extent:: 246

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1260/76/3
Title:: வயிரவன் மந்திரம்
Scope & Content:: This palmleaf manuscript titled Vayiravaṉ mantiram, from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. It specifically addresses the worship of the traditional protector deity Vairavaṉ. This deity is extremely common among Tamil speaking communities all over the world. The deity, usually found in the entrance o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1801-1899
Extent:: 34

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3
Title:: Collections of Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 262 files and 2522 images. NILGIRIS DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (NDC) officially inaugurated by British council Director Mr. Chris Gibson in 2006. This is the only surviving unique collection in this region, and not yet explored by any researchers. 1) Mr. A. Dharmalingam, son o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Not applicable, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1st half of the 20th century
Extent:: 2522 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3/160
Title:: Photo / Negative envelope 151
Scope & Content:: Extent: This file containing 1 envelope book type and 33 photo negatives.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Not applicable
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

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