Materials created by the Offices of the Royal Palace of Bamum Kings, currently displayed as part of the permanent Museum exhibition at the Archives du Palais des Rois Bamoun. The materials range from c 1896-1956 and consist of Bamum history, official records and correspondence of the Royal Palace of Bamum Kings, and a range of writings of artistic and scientific scope, such as calendars, maps, and manuals on medicine and love. Objects and ephemera including a royal ink well and document bags have also been digitised.
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Bamum Pharmacopeia
Leaves: 2; Pages: 4; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: unknown (ca. 1915?); Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: pages extracted from the Pharmacopeia in Reserve Archives ... -
Bamum Book of Love (Lerewa Nuu Nguet) [04 Apr 1905]
Leaves: 30; Pages: 60 with inserts; Measurements: 13.4cm x 10cm; Dates: 1921; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: Initially 64 pp in length, pp. 31-38 of original mss are missing ... -
History of the Bamum Kings: from Rifum to Njoya, Volume II (known famously in...
Leaves: 304; Pages: 604 (numbered 615-1218); Measurements: 22cm x 15cm; Dates: ca. 1912?; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: This book is the equivalent of the Bamum language version known as “Saa’ngam Pamom” or History and Culture of the Ba ... -
Attestation of the Retirement of Manshüt (Chief of Servants) Mekumié issued...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 20cm x 12cm; Dates: 1922; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; taped and torn; Comments: seal of King Njoya visable ... -
Agricultural Calendar [14 Mar 1905]
Leaves: 30; Pages: 59; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1900; Script: Akauku Mfemfe & Nyiet, and several early variants; Condition: Poor; Comments: Calendar drawn in circle; contains sketches in pencil probably made later ... -
A story of a King called Wajambaziar narrated by King Njoya [c 1908-1915?]
Leaves: 2; Pages: 3; Measurements: 15cm x 11cm; Dates: ca.1908-1915?; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Poor; Comments: probably extracted from a larger book, which cannot now be traced ... -
King Njoya’s Brass Inkwell
Leaves: 5 photographic images of same object; Pages: 5; Measurements: 16cm x 10cm; Dates: unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Good; Comments: on side is King Njoya’s name, written in a “mirror image”. When ink is applied to the protruding brass lette ... -
Record of the arrival of the first white men in the Bamum Kingdom [c 1910-1915?]
Leaves: 2; Pages: 4; Measurements: 22cm x 15cm; Dates: ca.1910-1915?; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: a date appears to translate as “July 1902” but needs verification (but the document was created at least a decade after this, judging by ... -
Festival of Nguon, including a list of gifts contributed by various lineages
Leaves: 1; Pages: 1; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: Unknown; Script: Akauku Nyiet; Condition: Very Poor; oil on paper makes it blurry; Comments: ... -
History of King Mbuombuo (1st)
Leaves: 28; Pages: 56; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: unknown; Script: early script variants; Condition: Good; Comments: blue and red ink ... -
History and Culture of the Bamum, known in conventional Bamum language ...
Leaves: 2660; Pages: 532; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1911; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Good; Comments: ... -
Report on taxes paid to the Germans in 1914 and the French in 1916 [7 October...
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15cm x 11cm; Dates: dated 7 October 1914 and 11 December 1916; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: ... -
Agenda of King Njoya [26 Mar 1905]
Leaves: 45; Pages: 90; Measurements: 28cm x 21cm; Dates: 1912; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: ... -
Record of King Njoya announcing to the Bamum people of his travels [28 Apr 1922]
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20cm x 12cm; Dates: 28 April 1922; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition: Poor; Comments: includes seal and signature of King Njoya ... -
Minutes of a Tribunal held by King Njoya [25 Mar 1905]
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15cm x 11cm; Dates: 1911; Script: Akauku Mfemfe; Condition:; Comments: ...
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