Bible. New Testament. Māori

Date: 1850-1928

By: Church of the Seven Rules of Jehovah; Chamberlain, Len, active 1994

Reference: MS-Group-0324

Description: Contains material about the Church of the Seven Rules of Jehovah including prayerbooks, rules, theological letters, church activities (baptisms, marriages, burials etc) and administrative details. There is also material from other churches - mainly treatises, prayer books and magazines - including Pai Marire, Anglican, Catholic, Mormon and Ratana churches. There are various copies of Māori newspapers and legislation affecting Māori. There are whakapapa notebooks that relate to Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitane, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato. There are also other papers including clippings and photos from newspapers, and bird feathers. Title supplied by Library. See also Patete papers (MS-Papers-5689) and Duffy papers (MS-Papers-4190) for further information about the Church of the Seven Rules of Jehovah. There is further material in the Turnbull printed collection, the photographic archive, and the newspaper collection (particularly in the Matuhi press). A Wairarapa-based Māori Church which eventually merged into the Ratana Church. For further information see MS-Papers-4190. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 25 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: The donor was the last person baptised into the Church. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 framed photograph of an unknown group performing in front of a wharenui and 2 unidentified photographs. (photocopies of these remain with the manuscript collection)..

Date: 1887

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MS-2493

Description: Presentation copy to the Revision Committee of the Maori New Testament; includes annotations and tipped-in holograph leaves. Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1887. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - On cover: Presentation copy to the Revision Committee; Ven Arch W L Williams Other Titles - Ko te kawenata hou a to tatau ariki a te kai whakaora a Ihu Karaiti he mea whakamaori mai no te reo kariki Quantity: 1 volume(s) (270 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations (22cm, black morocco in brown case)

Date: 1852

Reference: MS-0207

Description: Inscribed inside front cover: Henry Williams, July 9, 1853. Marked and annotated by Williams, and with English references and a few Maori words on endpapers Quantity: 1 volume(s) (371 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter with ms annotations (22 cm; brown calf) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - 80-428

Date: 1837, 1840

By: Colenso, William, 1811-1899

Reference: MS-0579

Description: With which is bound: He Maramatakahaere. Paihia: 1840 (lacks title page) (W50) Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - He Maramatakahaere Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 400, 16 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter (with annotations) (24 cm; brown calf)

Date: 1860-1880

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MS-Papers-2319

Description: New Testament in Maori with corrections and annotations (1869) Volume containing revision notes for New Testament Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 volumes). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter

Date: 1837

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878; Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978

Reference: MS-2417

Description: Ko te Kawenata Hou o to tatou ariki te kai wakaora a ihu karaiti... (Paihia, 1837); William Williams' proof copy corrected for final printing by William Colenso. Includes two letters from Williams to Colenso (1836 and n d). Other - Williams Bibliography: 170 Other Titles - Annototed [sic] copy of Ko te Kawenata Hou (spine title) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (356 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed material, 24 cm (¼ green calf, green buckram solander case)

Date: 1837

Reference: MS-0206

Description: Interleaved copy with ms notes and corrections. Lacks pages 1-9, including title page and also pages 193-210 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 700 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (21 cm; ¼ green morocco, green buckram box)

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1860

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: F-029

Description: Shows the distribution in 1842 of New Testaments donated by the British and Foreign Bible Society. A group of Maori and one European are in the foreground, a pa at back left, and Mt Taranaki in the distance. There is a basket of food, possibly kumara, in the right foreground. See description in Working Men's Educational Union "New Zealand and New Zealanders..." London, F. Baron, 1868, pages 29-30. Supplied title Each picture stamped with Union's name and address, and serial number, and has eyelet holes in 4 corners This view was formerly D-010-003 in the Library's group of 14 such views Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - (Stamp): Working Men's Educational Union 45 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on calico.. Physical Description: Lithograph on calico, hand-coloured, ca 900 x 1200 mm

Date: 1837

From: Alexander Turnbull Library :Negatives of items in the Library's collections

Reference: 1/2-005695-F

Description: Title page of the New Testament published by William Colenso, Pahia, 1837. Photographer, and date of photograph, unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Date of photograph unknown]

Reference: 1/2-028094-F

Description: Photograph of the Maori New Testament printed by William Colenso at Paihia in 1837. Photographer and date unidentified. The original of this Bible is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. Note on back of file print reads "It [the printing] was completed in December 1837, and ran to an edition of 5000 copies". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).