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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0013-E324-1

Title: Nevill Manuscript

Description: These two files contain scans of photographs of a manuscript currently located in the British Library among the collection of Hugh Nevill, a British civil servant who resided in Ceylon in the second half of the 19th century, and is therefore commonly known as the "Nevill manuscript". This copy of the manuscript was kindly donated by Prof. Kenneth David Jackson (who obtained it from the British Library and went on to publish a complete study of its contents (Jackson, 1990)) to be made available in the archive. The Nevill manuscript consists of a substantial collection of song lyrics and other oral traditions in "Ceylon Portuguese", of the greatest historical, linguistic, and ethnographic interest. According to Prof. Jackson, the compilation must have been produced around the 1870s or 1880s.The copy made available here has been divided into 2 parts: file slp01_1 corresponds to the section of the manuscript identified as "Portuguese Song Batticaloa", and slp01_2 contains "Cantiga de Purtiegese" [Songs of the Portuguese] "Susasoe de Oersaan maas Falentine" [Deeds of Oersaan and Falentine].NOTE: Professor KD Jackson learned of the Nevill Manuscript from Sri Lankan historianTikiri Abeyasinghe in Colombo in 1975 and secured a photograph copy from the BritishLibrary, which was the basis for the transcription by Dr. Elizabeth Jackson andthe translation and study published in K. David Jackson's SING WITHOUT SHAME (1990).REFERENCE:- Jackson, Kenneth David (1990), Sing without shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse.Amsterdam/Macau: John Benjamins/Instituto Cultural de Macau.

Date created: Unspecified

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: Sri Lanka

Project

ID: MDP0357

Name: srilankaportuguese-cardoso-0449

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Topics

Topic: manuscript

Topic: song

Topic: oral tradition

Topic: diachrony

Keywords

Keyword: poetry

Keyword: lyrics

Keyword: narrative

Content

Genre: Archival source

Languages

Language

Name: Sri Lanka Portuguese

Actor

Full Name: Kenneth David Jackson

Role: Collector

Written Resources

Filename: slparch01_2_Nevill-manuscript.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0013-E325-3

File type: Document

Access: U

Filename: slparch01_1_Nevill-manuscript.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0013-E326-A

File type: Document

Access: U

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