Colección GB 1446 MS 5 - CLARKE, John: book of African dialects

1 volume

GB 1446 MS 5 1841 collection 1 volume Clarke , John , fl 1841-1854 , Baptist missionary

John Clarke was a Baptist missionary who spent time in Fernando Po (Bioko, Equatorial Guinea), 1841-1847 and Havanna la Mar, Jamaica, 1854.

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Manuscript notebook containing a vocabulary list of a number of African languages, chiefly Hausa, written by John Clarke in Fernando Po, 1841.

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Hausa, English and unidentified African languages.

Note-book; light brown cloth boards.
18 X 12 cm

Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.

For a dictionary of the Fernandian tongue, by Clarke, see MS 4.

This notebook may be, like MS 4, a copy of Clarke's original manuscript, copied for the Ethnological Society, London.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Manuscript notebook containing a vocabulary list of a number of African languages, chiefly Hausa, written by John Clarke in Fernando Po, 1841.

Single item

Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.

Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.

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Hausa, English and unidentified African languages.

For a dictionary of the Fernandian tongue, by Clarke, see MS 4.

Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.

This notebook may be, like MS 4, a copy of Clarke's original manuscript, copied for the Ethnological Society, London.

This notebook may be, like MS 4, a copy of Clarke's original manuscript, copied for the Ethnological Society, London.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• inglés