EAP700: Preservation of the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s house – Pilot project
EAP981: Preservation of the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s house – Major project
EAP1222: Preservation of the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s house – Major project (final)
This collection of digitized documents from the Jaffna Bishop’s house are from the late eighteenth to the mid twentieth century. It consists of personal memoirs and diaries, chronicles, account books, church registers (of baptisms, marriages, confessions, missionary appointments), land deeds, correspondence, council minutes, sermons, newspaper clippings and more, ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with some copies of works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most documents relate to Catholic missionary efforts in northern Sri Lanka. Over half of the items are in French, but there are also many others in English, Tamil, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhala, and Dutch.
