Manuscripts

We preserve original manuscript collections reflecting South Africa’s past.

The Collection

• More than 400 collections of individuals and institutions.

• The Manuscripts section, in collaboration with Library Senior Management, will consider donations of original manuscript material of individuals and institutions with research value.

• With donations, a donor agreement between the Library and Information Service and the donor must be signed.

• This section strives to build a collection relevant to current academic research and collects works within its focus areas, worthy of preserving for the future.

• Manuscript collections are sorted, fully indexed and catalogued and finding aids for the collections (inventories and catalogues) are available in the section.

Focus areas

• Afrikaans literature and language

• South African cultural history

• South African political history

• Journalism and the South African Press

• History of Stellenbosch University. See SU Archives

• South African War 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War)

• South African art and artists