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