[Theophilus Hahn's Bushman notes A-G for Dr. Bleek]

[Theophilus Hahn's Bushman notes A-G for Dr. Bleek]

Other Documents

Various

1868

Bushman notes A-G, October 1868, MS (German). A hardcover book containing Theophilus Hahn's handwritten 'Bushman notes' (possibly Koranna) dated 1868, 'obtained' (copied?) from work by Rhenish missionary Revd Franz Heinrich Vollmer (1819-1867).

Inventory card, Theophilus Hahn (his Bushman notes), Koranna (these so-called 'Bushman' notes may instead concern), Schwerte an der Ruhr (in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), DF Bleek (donated by), Hochwollgeborn or Hochwohlgeborn (a [Austrian?] non-standard or archaic form of the Hochwohlgeboren honorific [lit. 'high well-born']), WHI Bleek (Hahn obtained notes for Bleek)

A German inscription, likely by Theophilus Hahn, appears to address Wilhelm Bleek as 'Dr. [i.e., Der] Hochwohlgebor[e]n Herrn Dr. Bleek in Capstadt[,] Cap der guten Hoffnung.' These 'Bushman' notes, which may instead be Koranna (a !kora-speaking group of the pastoralist Khoikhoi), were likely copied by Hahn for WHI Bleek. Hahn's explanatory inscription (in German) might also mention where Revd Franz Heinrich Vollmer's 'original' can be found.