Vocabulary list headed 'New Zealand' with note 'This vocabulary of the New Holland (Botany Bay) lang...
Vocabulary list headed 'New Zealand' with note 'This vocabulary of the New Holland (Botany Bay) lang...
Vocabulary list headed 'New Zealand' with note 'This vocabulary of the New Holland (Botany Bay) language taken down from Dunlop's Japanese Nation' and 'It is also the language of the Owyhee', ca. 1822
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1822
Call Numbers
MLDOC 22
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Language
- Maori
- English
- Australian languages
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 page of textual material - manuscript:
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Includes some items of Aboriginal vocabulary. On reverse are some astronomical calculations.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Vocabulary list headed 'New Zealand' with note 'This vocabulary of the New Holland (Botany Bay) language taken down from Dunlop's Japanese Nation' and 'It is also the language of the Owyhee', ca. 1822
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Maggs' Catalogue states that Note presumably refers to a paper sent to Herschel from James Dunlop, the astronomer, who at that time was working New South Wales (Maggs Catalogue No. 856 Voyages and Travels Vol. 4 Part IX Item 2218)
References:
MLDOC envelope
Voyages and travels in all parts of the world : a descriptive catalogue / by F....
Date note
Watermark dated 1822
Description source
Compiled from the Manuscripts MLDOCs as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Maggs Bros, January 1960
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLDOC 22
Record Identifier
YEGmZkPn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmZkPn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
913735
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