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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

BAUDIN, R P: French -Yoruba dictionary


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 16 and MS 17

Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Title: BAUDIN, R P: French -Yoruba dictionary

Date(s): 1885

Level of description: collection

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Baudin | Father | Noel | fl 1885 | Catholic missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Father Noel Baudin of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Bight of Benin was a French Roman Catholic missionary in Benin, 1885.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Two manuscript copies of a French-Yoruba dictionary by R P Baudin [Father Noel Baudin] entitled 'Dictionnaire Français-Yoruba - Dictionnaire Yoruba- Français'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French and Yoruba

System of arrangement:

N/A

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:

23.5 x 15.5 cm Mimeographed. Marbled paper boards, dark brown cloth spine; lettered on white label on spine.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

MS 17 presented by R E Dennett

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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: May 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Dictionaries | Reference materials | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Yoruba | African languages

Personal names
Baudin | Father | Noel | fl 1885 | Catholic missionary

Corporate names

Places
West Africa | Africa