Selected manuscripts

Ms.4° 1469

Santali manuscripts. Manuscripts that Santal sources wrote down. The material, which has folkloristic character, consists of 19 volumes. For detailed information, see Soren’s catalogue and detailed table of content for each volume (1999: p. 66-95).

Ms.4° 1469:A

10 titles – folktales, beliefs, kinship, sub clans, family deities. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256696.

Ms.4° 1469:B

33 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256698.

Ms.4° 1469:C

16 titles – folk songs, ceremonial songs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256699.

Ms.4° 1469:D

13 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256700.

Ms.4° 1469:E

11 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256701.

Ms.4° 1469:F

65 titles – subsepts, totems, taboos, custom, festivals, spirits and deities. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256702.

Ms.4° 1469:G

47 titles – subsepts, totems, taboos. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256703.

Ms.4° 1469:H

41 titles – subsepts, totems, taboos. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257234.

Ms.4° 1469:I

24 titles – subsepts, totems, taboos. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257235.

Ms.4° 1469:K

22 titles – games, witchcraft, history, folktales, metaphors. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257238.

Ms.4° 1469:L

31 titles – food, witchcraft, medicine, festivals, folk songs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257240.

Ms.4° 1469:M

16 titles – witchcraft, spirits, deities, funeral ceremony, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257242.

Ms.4° 1469:N

131 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257244.

Ms.4° 1469:O

46 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257455.

Ms.4° 1469:P

37 titles – folktales, witchcraft, incantations, medicine men, insurrection, beliefs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257461.

Ms.4° 1469:Q

148 titles – folktales, spirits and deities, witchcraft, incantations, beliefs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257462.

Ms.4° 1469:R

58 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257463.

Ms.4° 1469:S

13 titles – witchcraft, incantations, medicine man. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257465.

Ms.4° 1469:T

15 titles – witchcraft, incantations, medicine man, sorcery, spirits and deities. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_257467.

Ms.8° 1448

Santal folktales, written down by Santals. The 27 volumes contain mostly folktales, but also subjects like folk song, tradition, etc. A selection of the titles are published in «Santal Folktales», ed. by P. O. Bodding, Vol. 1-3, Oslo 1925-1929 (Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning, serie B, 2, 7 og 14). For information about the different volumes see Santosh K. Soren’s Santalia: Catalogue of Santali Manuscripts in Oslo (1999: p. 19-52).

Ms.8° 1448:A

40 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_254744.

Ms.8° 1448:B

50 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_254745.

Ms.8° 1448:C

29 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_254746.

Ms.8° 1448:D

113 titles – folktales, beliefs, omens, hunting, custom, taboos. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_254747.

Ms.8° 1448:E

11 titles – folktales, games and plays. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255152.

Ms.8° 1448:F

28 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255154.

Ms.8° 1448:G

12 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255155.

Ms.8° 1448:H

16 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255156.

Ms.8° 1448:I

17 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255297.

Ms.8° 1448:J

26 titles – games and plays, tatooing, food, witchcraft, omens. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255298.

Ms.8° 1448:K

12 titles – folktales, traditions, birth, marriage. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255299.

Ms.8° 1448:L

32 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255300.

Ms.8° 1448:M

18 titles – mission, history, traditions, birth, marriage. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255301.

Ms.8° 1448:N

14 titles – medicine men, witchcraft, dance, festivals, omens, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255302.

Ms.8° 1448:O

24 titles – folktales, insurrection. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255303.

Ms.8° 1448:P

31 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255304.

Ms.8° 1448:Q

13 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_255305.

Ms.8° 1448:R

24 titles – folktales. (Volume Rb in Soren, 1999) NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256410.

Ms.8° 1448:R:a

4 titles – folktales, medicine. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256412.

Ms.8° 1448:S

26 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256413.

Ms.8° 1448:T

23 titles – folktales, metaphors, medicine, riddles, games and plays. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256414.

Ms.8° 1448:U

20 titles – beliefs, religion, traditions, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256726.

Ms.8° 1448:V

12 titles – birth, medicine, riddles. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256727.

Ms.8° 1448:W

35 titles – folktales, customs, ceremonies. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256728.

Ms.8° 1448:X

70 titles – folktales, beliefs, customs, insurrection, marriage, clan system, life, folk songs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256729.

Ms.8° 1448:Y

24 titles – folktales, insurrection, marriage, customs, hunting. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256730.

Ms.8° 1448:Z

35 titles – folktales, folk songs, marriage. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256732.

Ms.8° 1449

Santali folktales Manuscripts written down by Santals, except for the first three stories, which Bodding himself wrote down in order to illustrate to the Santali sources how to record their stories on paper. The book has the superscription «Mnemoneúmata». NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_256710.

Ms.8° 1450

Santali vocabulary. This material constitutes 23 volumes of words and concepts regarding tradition, custom, etc. that Santals wrote down. For detailed information, see Soren (1999).

Ms.8° 1451

Santali vocabulary. The material consists of 107 small, thin books with Santali vocabulary words and explanations. The words are alphabetical.

Ms.fol. 1684

Santali vocabulary. This material was the basis of Bodding’s Santali-English Dictionary, a project that Skefsrud initiated. Skefsrud founded the Norwegian Santal Mission that was active in Santhal Parganas (Soren: 1999). This material relates to documents registered as Ms.fol. 1685. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271837.

Ms.fol. 1685

Santali vocabulary. See Ms.fol. 1684. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271843.

Ms.fol. 1686

Santali manuscripts. With few exceptions, this material is a duplicate copy of Ms.8° 1448 and Ms.4° 1469, written out by H.J. Muston on loose papers. File IX is not a duplicate and is completely different from the others material (Soren: 1999).

Ms.fol. 1686:1

File I: Folktales

Ms.fol. 1686:1:1

27 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269194.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:2

18 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269195.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:3

12 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269197.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:4

19 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269198.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:5

30 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269199.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:6

16 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269200.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:7

18 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269201.

Ms.fol. 1686:1:8

17 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269202.

Ms.fol. 1686:2

File II: Folktales

Ms.fol. 1686:2:1

19 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269204.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:2

8 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269205.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:3

27 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269206.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:4

11 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269207.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:5

28 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269208.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:6

21 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269209.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:7

48 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269210.

Ms.fol. 1686:2:8

24 titles, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269211.

Ms.fol. 1686:3

File III: Folktales and daily life of the Santals

Ms.fol. 1686:3:1

7 titles – folktales, rebellion, agriculture. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269606.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:2

16 titles – folktales, festivals, ceremonial songs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269607.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:3

13 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269608.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:4

17 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269609.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:5

34 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269610.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:6

13 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269611.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:7

19 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269612.

Ms.fol. 1686:3:8

23 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269613.

Ms.fol. 1686:4

File IV: Folktales

Ms.fol. 1686:4:1

6 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269616.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:2

34 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269617.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:3

9 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269618.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:4

23 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269619.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:5

30 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269620.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:6

6 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269621.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:7

14 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269622.

Ms.fol. 1686:4:8

43 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269623.

Ms.fol. 1686:5

File V: Folktales, rebellion, witchcraft

Ms.fol. 1686:5:1

15 titles – folktales, rebellion, witchcraft. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269625.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:2

6 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269626.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:3

28 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269627.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:4

16 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269628.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:5

27 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269629.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:6

25 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269630.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:7

20 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269631.

Ms.fol. 1686:5:8

17 titles – folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269632.

Ms.fol. 1686:6

File VI: Folktales and daily life of the Santals

Ms.fol. 1686:6:1

18 titles – folktales, witchcraft. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269634.

Ms.fol. 1686:6:2

35 titles – omens, deities, festivals, witchcraft, taboos, beliefs, traditions. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269635.

Ms.fol. 1686:6:3

17 titles – agriculture, food, beliefs, daily life, village council, rebellion, Assam colony. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269636.

Ms.fol. 1686:7

File VII: Subclans, totems, taboos, custom, etc.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:1

12 titles – clans, totems, custom, festivals, spirits and deities, medicine men, witchcraft. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269959.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:2

37 titles – subclans, totems, taboos, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269961.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:3

30 titles – subclans, totems, taboos, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269962.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:4

24 titles – subclans, totems, taboos, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269963.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:5

39 titles – subclans, totems, taboos, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269964.

Ms.fol. 1686:7:6

27 titles – subclans, totems, taboos, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269965.

Ms.fol. 1686:8

File VIII: Daily life, traditions, custom, etc.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:1

16 titles – birth and purification, custom, beliefs, dreams. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269967.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:2

27 titles – games and plays, folktales. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269969.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:3

2 titles – snake bite, incantation, spirits. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269970.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:4

3 titles – incantations, songs, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269971.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:5

8 titles – festivals and songs, custom. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269972.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:6

38 titles – daily life, hunting, agriculture, food, beliefs, women’s work. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269973.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:7

1 title – food, agriculture, clothing, fishing, hunting. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269975.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:8

1 title – food, agriculture, clothing, fishing, hunting. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269976.

Ms.fol. 1686:8:9

1 title – folk songs, church songs. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_269977.

Ms.fol. 1686:9

File IX: Anthropoligical and ethnological papers, some Santali, etc.

Ms.fol. 1686:9:1

A collection of anthropological papers and some official letters. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271798.

Ms.fol. 1686:9:2

2 titles – language, incantations.»Mantar.» NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271800.

Ms.fol. 1686:9:3

Ethnological questions and papers. Originally 18 titles, three are missing (i.p.p.): 2954, 2955 and 2956 (see Santosh K. Soren, 1999, for information about these manuscripts). NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271801.

Ms.fol. 1686:9:4

Bodding’s papers in English and Norwegian, incl. Santal stories in Norwegian translated by Bodding. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271871.

Ms.fol. 1686:9:6

Copy of the agreement on how Santali should be written. NBdigital: URN:NBN:no-nb_digimanus_271873.

Ms.fol. 1687

Santali manuscripts. These 25 manuscripts deal mostly with the daily life of the Santali people. The Santals recorded the first 23 manuscripts, while Bodding recorded the last two (Soren: 1999).