The Pate chronicle : edited and translated from MSS 177, 321, 344, and 358 of the Library of the University of Dar es Salaam / by Marina Tolmacheva ; and reproducing the versions published by C.H. Stigand Alice Werner, M. Heepe and Alfred Voeltzkow ; edited and partially translated by Marina Tolmacheva with the assistance of Dagmar Weiler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolmacheva, Marina (Historian)

Stigand, C. H. (Chauncy Hugh), 1877-1919.

Weiler, Dagmar.

Heepe, Martin, 1887-

Voeltzkow, Alfred, b. 1860.

Series:

African historical sources ; 4.

African historical sources ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pate (Kenya)--History--Sources.

Pate (Kenya).

Lamu (Kenya)--History--Sources.

Lamu (Kenya).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 607 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In late October 1890, a British force led by Admiral Fremantle assaulted and subdued the East African town of Witu, the mainland capital of the Nabahani rulers of Pate; five years later, the entire region and the adjacent coastal islands came under British administration. One of the great tragedies suffered as a result of Admiral Fremantle's initial attack was the loss of the original manuscript of the history of Pate, The Book of the Kings of Pate. This historical work in its various forms is representative of a living historical tradition developed in the coastal city-state

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Maps; 1. The East African Coast; 2. The Lamu Archipelago; 3. Manuscript Map of Pate; General Introduction; Transcripts and Translations; Ancient History From Swahili Sources; Translation; A Swahili History of Pate; Transcription; Translation; Swahili Chronicle of Pate; Transcription; Translation; History of the Witu Islands; Translation; MS 177 Akhbar Pateh; Transcription; Translation; MS 321 Akhbar Pateh; Transcription; Translation; MS 344 RIWAYA TAWARIKH ZA PATEH; Transcription; Translation; MS 358 Akhbar Pateh; Transcription; Translation

Appendices 1. Manuscript Genealogical Chart; 2. MS 309 (Translation); 3. Sultans of Pate; 4. Genealogical Table of the Rulers of Witu; 5. Chronology of the Rulers of Witu; 6. Genealogy of the Nabhani Rulers of Pate; 7. Chronology of the Nabhani Rulers of Pate; 8. Imams and Seyyids of Oman; Selected Bibliography; Arabic-Swahili Texts; MS M (Ki-Mvita) Khabari ya-awwali ya-Nabhani; MS A (Ki-Amu) Khabari ya-awali ya-Nabhani; MS 177 Akhbar Pateh; MS 321 Akhbar Pateh; MS 344 Riwayah Tawarikh za Pateh; MS 358 Akhbar Pateh

Notes:

Includes texts in Arabic and Swahili.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-498).

ISBN:

9781609173029

1609173023

OCLC:

774285361