IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 4
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: CLARKE, John: dictionary of the Fernandian tongue
Date(s): 1854
Level of description: collection
Extent: 2 Vols.
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 copy of a dictionary of the Fernandian tongue in two volumes, 12 May 1854, collected by John Clarke from the people of the island of Fernando Po and the adjacent continent, 1 Jan 1841 to 11 May 1847.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Fernandian and English
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:
2 vols. 19 x 12.5 cm (vol. 1); 20 x 12.5 cm (vol. 2).
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The notebooks were copied from the original for the Ethnological Society, London.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For a dictionary of a number of African languages by Clarke, see MS 5.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2008