Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1966- (Accumulation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Guide
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
An agreement was signed in 1937 between the Church of the Province of South Africa - now known as the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) - and the University of the Witwatersrand, whereby the church's Central Record Library was placed on loan with the University. The library consisted of books, pamphlets, periodicals and manuscripts.
The Anglican manuscripts were initially described in Section 2 of the University Library's Guide to the Archives and Papers which ran through three editions between 1967-1975 and a Cumulative Supplement 1975-1979. With the growth of the church’s collection of manuscripts, it became more manageable to publish a separate guide to it. This edition of the Guide to the Archives of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa lists all Anglican Church collections described in previous guides, together with all accessions between 2000 and 2009.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This Guide provides an overview of the archive of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa. The descriptions are provided on Fonds level.
The collections comprise letters, diaries, minutes, memoranda, press clippings, scrap-books, registers, financial, ecclesiastical and personal documents and pictorial material.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arrangement of the entries is by Collection number. The missing numbers in the numerical sequence relate to the general collections at Historical Papers, which are described in the Guide to the Historical Papers Collections, see HP1.
Entries are under the name of a person or organisation or the first word of a title or subject. For persons, a brief biographical note has been supplied with dates of birth and death, where these could be ascertained. Other information includes the type of material, inclusive dates, the extent of an item or collection, names of chief correspondents and important subjects covered. Also included in the collection description is an indication if an inventory or calendar is available. Such inventory can then be accessed in AtoM under its respective collection number (Identifier) . Most collections though have no further inventory.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
The Guide to the Archives of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA), has been compiled and is subject to copyright by the Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Other Finding Aids at the Historical Papers Research Archive:
HP1 - Guide to the Historical Papers Collections
HP3 - Guide to Historical Papers Photographs
HP4 - Guide to Digitised Audio and Audio-Visual material
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
The Guide might not include the most recently added collections and items, but is being updated on a regular basis.