Transliteration of the Surate Darik (Qu’ranic recitiation) in the Akauku Mfemfe script
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 14.2cm x 12cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe (transcribing the Arabic language); Condition: Good; Comments: This is a transliteration, not a translation, meaning that the spoken language is entirely Arabic
Treatise on the Christian Gospels in Shümom language; reverse side includes geometric designs
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 30cm x 13.4cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Good; Comments: The language transcribed here is Shümom, the artificial spoken language devised by King NJOYA, and not the conventional Bamum language (known by the Bamum as “Shüpamom”)
Report by Tikompaful regarding a Death Sentence by Hanging [10 Oct 1917]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22cm x 12.5cm; Dates 10 October 1917; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes the official stamp of King NJOYA
Report on the traditional and modern ways of marriage celebration
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 59.5cm x 33cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: This is the outside packaging in which documents were held
Register of names of various People and their Mothers [10 May 1914]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 22.2cm x 14.2cm; Dates 10 May 1914; Script: Akauku Nyiet with notes in Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes King NJOYA’s official stamp; the use of Akauku Nyiet at this point, as a primary script, is of interest because by this time Akauku Mfemfe w...