Dictionnaire de la langue de Roro-Mekeo : autograph manuscript / J. M. Vitale, Miss. du S. C.
Dictionnaire de la langue de Roro-Mekeo : autograph manuscript / J. M. Vitale, Miss. du S. C.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
approximately 1900
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10495
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Reference Code
Language
French
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
0.23 metres of textual material (1 volume) - 23 x 18 cm - bound manuscript of 320 pages (some blank)
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Fonds
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Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Father Joseph M. Vitale’s unpublished dictionary lists words of Roro and Mekeo, Austronesian languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of Yule Island and the adjacent mainland on the southern coast of New Guinea. The pages are divided into three columns and arranged alphabetically with the French words and phrases in the left hand column and their...
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Full title
Dictionnaire de la langue de Roro-Mekeo : autograph manuscript / J. M. Vitale, Miss. du S. C.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Contributing Creator
Transcribed from title page. 'Miss. du S. C.' stands for Missionnaire du Sacré-Coeur [Missionary of the Sacred Heart].
Notes
General note
Probably the earliest surviving written record of the Roro and Mekeo languages as they were spoken in the 19th century at the time of the first contact between the Roro and Mekeo people and Europeans.
The volume has been paginated in pencil by the Library.
Description source
Title transcribed from title page.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, February 2019
Administrative / Biographical history
Joseph M. Vitale was born in 1866 in Gildone, Italy. He joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1886 and was ordained as a priest in 1888. He was among the first group of missionaries to arrive on Yule Island, following the establishment of a Catholic mission there in 1885. He worked with the native Roro and Mekeo speakers on Yule Island and...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 10495
Record Identifier
nM70EJXY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM70EJXY
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Reference code
9627749
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