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