Circular to the Basel Mission stations in India on financial matters, 1847. The Circular is 4 pp long and dated 21st Sep. 1847 (lithographed in the old German handwriting) and contains a definition of the points B to Q which have to be treated…
India: essays, lectures, MS 1918, by Heinrich Kühner, BV 1464 an archive file (19x27x3 cm). It contains two exercise books of the same format as those in C-10.4a&b. The texts are in German. Only the first essay is dated (1918 in Jercand). So the…
English lessons for the Seminary in Malabar on Astronomy and Philosophy, with two sermons from Rev. Frohnmeyer. The exercise books contains scripts in English apparently written by L. Frohnmeyer for him to read out in class, or sermon texts (the…
Salvation in Brahmanism, Guilt in Brahmanism. Folio-Format MSS, 18 pp & 12 pp., term-papers from H.Menke, a pre-ordination student of theology, n.d. A MS note informs us that H. Menke was not a member of the Basel Mission.
typewritten draft of c. 1-9 of a book published 1980, covering the Methodist, Congregationalist and Basel Mission histories in Karnataka which were united in the Church of South India (CSI), Format A 4, 121 pp. With a 5-page commentary written for Dr…
MS Report in German, dateline Bandjermasin, S-E. Borneo, 60 pp., dat. 5. Apr. 1925, on his extended journey through India, (pp. 1-44) East and South-East Asia.
Development Aid in agriculture, handicrafts, industry and trade by the Basel Mission in India during the Inspectorates of Josenhans and Schott, 1850-1884. 69 p. typescript (carbon copy), "1965" has been added by hand.. Thesis submitted in order to be…
n.d. but probably mid 1970s, by S.K. Havanur. Relating to a query as to whether a certain poem was written by Muddana, a Kannada poet of the late 19th century.
East India Company in India according to the Bombay Quarterly 1856/57. There are two MSS on A-5 format paper, the upper pages of which have been damaged by water. The first MS is in English and has in pencil the title "Aus der Geschichte der…
112 numbered MS pages 17.5x22.5 cm, with a detailed list of contents at the end. The first part (pp. 1-55) seems to contain texts for prayers for the church year, the second part the orders of service for Baptism, Confirmation, the Lord’s Supper,…
Life of Buddha according to Mongolian sources 19 pp. folio MS, judging from the paper mid-19th century or earlier. On p. 1, reference to a publication by Marshman in 1814. No indication of author. Scholarly MS with footnotes.
two articles [in English] for an Indian periodical about two Indian Basel Mission pastors Paul Chandran and Sebastian Furtado by Inspector Streckeisen. 4 pp., T/S, 1950
Materials for mission festivals, meetings with supporters, tracts etc. The file holding this material gives the date 1917/18 and describes the contents as "19 Hefte" = quarto thin soft-cover exercise books, with the labels of the stationers in…
Unfinished MS on India, by Insp. Frohnmeyer A4 double-spaced T/S (carbon copy) in hard-cover file, pages numbered inconsistently up to 271, some chapters inserted without page numbers, so about 330 pp in all. No list of contents. No footnotes or…
History of the Basel Mission in South Mahratta 43 pp T/S, 1935 (NB the red pagination is to be preferred to the blue!). This is mainly a history of what Schiess himself experienced - the first world war breaks out already on p. 11.
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