Foolscap format, pages unnumbered, but inside the cover the paper is 1.8 cm thick. Condition: pretty good. Although the Presbyterium was a mixed Indian/missionary body the minutes are almost exclusively in German, though one or two cases are minuted…
Foolscap Format, the pages are not numbered, but the paper inside the cover is is 2.4cm thick. This [standing] conference is a Mangalore group responsible for the administration of Basel Mission schools in South Canara. This volume contains the…
Foolscap format, 200 numbered pages condition: fairly good. This seems primarily to be a record of the Canarese District Church Fund and its administration. The accounts of the Church Fund are in English throughout, the minutes (apart from a number…
[NB the title on the spine given above gives the wrong chronological spread: the years covered are, as the title page states 1877-1908]. Volume in new binding. Foolscap format, pages numbered by hand up to 175 (1888), c. 40 further pages used,…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover. Foolscap format, pages not numbered, thickness inside the cover 1.4 cm. Conservation standard: pretty good, problems with ink spread relatively restricted. Minutes of the…
Volume in original leather binding, external dimensions 27.5x21x2 cm. Condition: moderate to good, ink and legibility being the main problem. NB it appears also to contain some minutes of the District Executive Committee. Continues with C-5-2.3 OR…
Volume in new binding. Foolscap format, hand-numbered pages end at p. 276, but there must be c. 400 pp. altogether (internal dimension: 2 cm thick). Conservation standard: moderate to good, on a lot of pages ink has soaked through from behind. …
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, c. 270 hand-numbered pages, with functional alphabetical index at rear. Some miscellaneous documents in German and Kannada in a pocket at…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, 223 pages numbered by hand. Conservation standard: good, not least because most of the pages have only been written on one side. …
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, no page numbers, paper 1.2 cm thick. Condition: poor. Virtually every page has lost a substantial chunk at the top to insect/worm…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, with 390 hand-numbered pages of text, and what looks like a functioning alphabetical index of personal- and place names, and of topics, at…
Foolscap format record, with 684 numbered pages. Cover lost. Condition fairly good, though on a number of pages the writing on both sides is visible. The minutes up to the final expulsion of Basel Missionaries after the First World War cover the pp…
Foolscap format record, 2.5 cm thick, the cover has been lost. The last handwritten page number is 324, but it must be c. 400 pages long. Conservation standard: fairly good, with only light insect/worm damage. Handwritten and typewritten minutes of…
Small (22.5x18x0.7 cm) school exercise book with original copies of minutes of the General Conference Executive Committee for the years given. Pages not numbered. The minutes reflect intensive meetings in 1886 and the first half of 1887. In the other…
School exercise book format, the first 33 pages have been numbered by hand (but 33 pages is probably somewhat less than half the whole book). Condition: severely damaged by insects/worms, and towards the end heavy ink-spread makes the documents…
NB the title is neither modern, nor original Pages of a small (28x18x1.5 cm) book (cover lost) with stout paper into which important documents appear to have been copied. Condition: good (except that the cover is missing). The earliest documents…
497-page tissue-paper copy book, of which only pp. 1-193 and 497 were used, covering the years 1907-1919. Authors: Vogel, Eidenbenz Although the draft guide to the India Archive identified this as a copy-book generated in Kodakal, closer…
The successor to C-5-1.27. A substantial volume (31x24x4cm dimensions inside the binding) containing 487 numbered pages. 319 of these pages are used as mounts for copies of letters to India from the India Inspector in Basel. From p. 88 (Dec. 1912)…
A substantial volume (31x24x3.8 cm). The pages are not numbered, but judging by C-5-1.28 it will contain c. 450 pp., on at least 400 pp. of which tissue-paper copies of letters to India from the Director and the India Inspector in Basel are…
An A-4 tear-off or scratch pad, with 200 numbered sheets, though the first 19 sheets have been torn off. It has been used to make carbon-paper copies. Condition: moderate or slightly better. The paper is discolouring uniformly. There is some…
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