Customs of the Tulu people written down by Sriniwasa Bhatta and translated into German by Rev. M. Schaible 8 folio pp. The MS contains the information that Sriniwasa Bhatta was the missionaries’ language teaher in Karkala.
G. Kies. Vedanta teachings about the Fall of Man and liberation). MS on paper somewhat smaller than A 4, 21 pp. This is a document in a handwriting well-known as belonging to an assistant in the mission house staff in Basel from the mid-19th…
Basawa, the secular founder of modern Lingayatism, by Rev. G. Würth, 1856. This is 2 MSS with separate pagination but written on the same quarto blue-tinted paper, the first 68 pp long, the second 136 pp long. Format: A-4. The first part is headed…
Order of service for the service of thanksgiving when the Basel Mission was allowed once more to work in Malabar - 3. Oct. 1926). This is a German translation in typescript, 9 quarto pp., made by Rev. Gustav Peter, a former missionary in North…
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,…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Two small archival boxes (4a and 4b) hold 13 school exercise books (17x21x1.2 cm). These contain the scripts of sermons preached by Heinrich Kühner from 2nd April 1916 to Christmas 1919. NB the scripts are in German. Kühner was interned from Dec.…
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…
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