This material is a Tamil palm-leaf manuscript from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. This palmleaf manuscript consists of the legend of vaḷḷiyammaṉ ammāṉai or the goddess vaḷḷi who was passionately pursued by and was married to the lord murukaṉ. This well known Tamil legend was written in this man...
This palm-leaf manuscript titled Periyatampirāṉ kāviyam is from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. This epic text was writen by Vīrakkuṭṭi Mūttavaṉ of Tāḻaṅkuṭā on December 15th 1916, the first day of the Tamil month of mārkaḻi the periyatampirāṉ kāviyam was written. On 25th October 1926, the 9th ...
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
Training School for Native Civil Servants (Opleiding School Voor Inlandsche Ambtenaren, OSVIA) in Magelang.
Scope & Content:
This sub-series contains the following 12 files: EAP1268/6/4/2/1: Verw. Huw. en Erfs. EAP1268/6/4/2/2: Volksrecht IV EAP1268/6/4/2/3: BW III EAP1268/6/4/2/4: Volksrecht II boek 1ste schrift EAP1268/6/4/2/5: P.W. Klad II EAP1268/6/4/2/6: Inlandsch Reglement II EAP1268/6/4/2/7: BW I: aante...
Notes on how to register indigenous Marriage and Inheritance in the Dutch East Indies. These notes originate from a book on indigenous law (adat), most likely one of the volumes of 'Het Adatrecht van Nederlandsch-Indië' by Cornelis van Vollenhoven.
This collection contains the papers of Abdallah Bey Hamza, a merchant and creditor from the northern Sudanese town of Matamma. It deals with his commercial transactions, including lands bought, sold, and rented; commercial receipts; partnership contracts; marriage and divorce contracts; legal ca...