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Manuscripts and archives relating to Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

J.D. Pearson
J.D. Pearson*
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Extract

A most useful introduction to archive and manuscript collections in Europe and America as well as in Africa was contributed by P. Duignan to the Nairobi conference in 1967 and is published in The Bibliography of Africa, ed. Pearson and Jones, pp. 194—213.

The series of ‘Guides to materials for West African history in European archives’ being produced by the University of London Institute of Historical Research numbers four volumes up to the time of writing:

Materials for West African history in the archives of Belgium and Holland, by Patricia Carson. London, 1962.

Materials for West African history in Portuguese archives, by A.F.C. Ryder. London, 1965.

Materials for West African history in Italian archives, by Richard Gray and David Chambers. London, 1965.

Materials for West African history in French archives, by Patricia Carson. London, 1968.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 1 , 1973 , pp. 11 - 18
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Copyright © International African Institute 1973

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Footnotes

The first part of his survey dealing with manuscripts in African languages and Arabic, and manuscripts in Western languages located in Africa was published in Library materials on Africa, vol. 10, no. 3, December 1972.

References

page 11 note 1 France, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, Netherlands, Indonesia, Sweden, South Africa, Réunion, Mauritius and Madagascar.

page 11 note 2 Now known as Bibliothèque Albert Ier.

page 16 note 1 One entry at ‘Africa, piracy proceedings in’ in the index of persons and places’, and one in the subject index for ‘African, Company, pensions to’.

page 16 note 2 A version of a talk given to the Royal Commonwealth Society by Mr. Tawney was published in Commonwealth Journal 7, no. 1, Feb. 1964, pp. 38–41.Google Scholar See also L.B. Frewer's paper submitted to the Nairobi Conference in 1967 and published in The Bibliography of Africa, edited by J.D. Pearson and Ruth Jones (1970), pp. 214-222.

page 16 note 3 A report for 1963 was published in BAS 2, May 1964, pp. 18-22, and reprinted in ASB VII, 2, May 1964, pp. 6-8. J.J. Tawney reported on the first three years of the Project's operations in BAS 7, March 1966, pp. 20-24. Other reports were issued in duplicated form.

page 16 note 4 See also, undeterred by its title, the companion volume, also by Frewer, Manuscript collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library (1970) which refers to African materials included in collections predominantly non-African, and also lists a small number of MSS. relating to St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension Island, Mauritius and Seychelles.

page 17 note 1 The only parts of the earlier work not taken over into the later volume, and sometimes expanded, are the supplements. ‘American missionary sending societies for Africa South of the Sahara’, Catholic and Protestant, and a ‘Territorial survey of denominational archives covered by this guide’.