EAP450: Manuscripts of the Sri Lankan Malays – Pilot project
EAP609: Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka – Major project
This collection consists of digitized documents from private, family, and mosque archives from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Items in this diverse collection include songs, poetry, stories, theological writings, tales of Islamic prophets, prayer books, diaries, family records, letters, mosque and land deeds, and grammar and writing primers. Languages used in the collection include Malay, Arabic, Arabu-Tamil, Tamil, Javanese, English, and Sinhala.
