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CLARKE, John: book of African dialects


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 5

Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Title: CLARKE, John: book of African dialects

Date(s): 1841

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Clarke | John | fl 1841-1854 | Baptist missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Hausa, English and unidentified African languages.

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

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.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Physical characteristics:

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

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

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

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Dictionaries | Reference materials | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Grammar | Linguistics
Hausa | African languages
African Languages

Personal names
Clarke | John | fl 1841-1854 | Baptist missionary

Corporate names

Places
Africa