Services
 

• The Library is open to Belgian and european PhD students, aged under 30, who have been recommended by the University professors supervising their work.
 

 Consultation of documents is by appointment only, subject to 10 days notice, and has to take place on the Foundation premises.  The person responsible for the Library shall provide the duly accredited requester with a reader's card.

The Library contains 5.000 items (ca), in addition to 7.000 copies from 90 periodicals, for which the names are listed on the relevant Web site.
 

An analytical and an alphabetical (by author's name) catalogue are available at the Foundation premises.

 

Extracts of the "Library Catalogue" are available on the Foundation Web Site.

EXTRACTS OF THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Central Africa (ca 1150 books) West Africa (ca 325 books) Asia (ca 225 books) World Wars & others (ca 400 books)

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Not included on the website are 2600 books concerning the following themes:

Major ideas – Ethics	Sea World
Social and economic sciences	Archaeology : Prehistory and protohistory
Social sciences of religions	Others
Initiation rites and sexuality	Battle fields archaeology
Biographies	Slavery and camps
Publications on youth	Aviation (civil and military)
Greek domain	Novels
Latin domain	Linguistics
Americas

 

• The Photographic Library is covered by a Copyright that protects around 10.000 pictures and specialized negatives related to the following themes:
 

Sub-Saharan Africa :	-	Urban and rural environments
	-	Rural development
	-	History and anthropology
	-	Archaeology
	-	African youth
	-	Ethnographic documents
South-East Asia :	-	Archaeological survey of the Laotian valley of the Mekong River (more than 1.000 artefacts' pictures)
Other parts of the World :	-	South America (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil)
	-	Europe
	-	Maghreb

 
Pictures may be consulted, by appointment only, on the Foundation premises. Some of them may be reproduced, at requestor's expenses, and used subject to the Copyright restrictions.

 

• Presently, consulting and studying the Collections *** gathered by the Foundation will be allowed when in connection with academic work at doctoral level, and with the recommendation to the Foundation of the academic tutor.
 

As an indication of wide-ranging interests, the following study subjects could be in line with the Foundation collections :
 

-  Europe	:	.The Astronomical Clock of Michel Ghiesbreght (1780 and sq)      (Michel Ghiesbreght : the man and his work)
	:	.Specific artefacts such as :  .A Merovingian urn .A gothic baptistery .Heraldic lions .A Jacques II lantern clock .A Charles X clock . .../...
-  Maghreb countries	:	.Several deeds on wooden material coming from village lofts .Slave- irons
-  West Africa	:	.Various bronzes ( Senoufo couples ; Lobi and from other origins pendants ; anthromorphic statuettes) .Several specific documents
-  Central Africa	:	.Woyo art .Rings as jewels used by Kongo peoples .Artefacts for trade and others, from European origin .Yaka statuettes .Artefacts of "Ngongi" and "Mukanda" (Yaka initiation rites) ; "Mukanda" masks .Syncretic religious artefacts .Several specific documents
-  Numismatics	:	.Gallic, Hellenistic , Roman, ... .Maghreb .Europe .Africa
-  Wars	:	.Numerous artefacts and documents from the two World Wars

-  .../...

 

Important Collections of Prehistory relate to Northern Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and South East Asia.

Collections of Ceramics relate especially to the Iron Age in West Africa.

Object of the "Late Stone Age", discovered in 1998 during the "Archaelogical survey of the Lao valley of the Mekong river", mission directed by Paul Raymaekers. The function of such an object remains unknown (Lao National Museum, Vientiane).

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***  A century after the death of the founder of the Foundation, the entire library, the Photographic library and all the Collections will be remitted to several specific Institutions (Museums, Universities, ...) in the countries from where the books, objects and artefacts originated.

All the pieces of the Collections have been officially authorized for export from their countries of origin and these authorizations are well documented.

 

Available Publications

The foundation holds the copyright of all the publications made under the supervision of Paul Raymaekers.
 
More specifically :

01      "L'organisation des zones de squatting,
élément de résorption du chômage structurel dans les milieux urbains des pays en voie de développement" (283 p.).

Preface by L.J. Lebret, Head of Research at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

Socio-economic views of Kinshasa at the time of the Independence of Congo (June 1960) 

Ed. Universitaires, Paris - Brussels, 1964

Original

:  65 Euro

02  "L'Eglise de Jésus-Christ sur la Terre par le prophète Simon Kimbangu" (90 p.)

Transformation of a politico-religious group into a church, on the eve of the Independence of Congo
 

	1ère Ed. Université of Louvain (Rev. Zaïre), 1964	Épuisé
	2e   Ed. Bur. Études pr un Développement Harmonisé (BEDH)	2nd Edition	:  35 Euro

03   "Histoire de Simon Kimbangu, prophète – d'après les Ecrivains Nfinangani et

        Nzungu" (56 p.)

Preface by H. Desroche, Head of studies at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris)

African version of the surge of a Prophet
 

	Archives de Sociologie des religions (ASR), Paris, 1971	Épuisé
	Bureau d'Organisation de Programmes Ruraux (BOPR), Kinshasa, 1971	Copy	:  10 Euro

04      "L'Administration et le Sacré,
Discours religieux et parcours politiques en Afrique centrale, 1924-1957" (399 p.)

In collaboration with H. Desroche, Head of studies at the EHESS, Paris

Archives of the belgian Colonial Administration on the political and religious movements in Western part of Central Africa
 

Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer (ARSOM), Brussels,1983 BEDH, Brussels, 1983

Original

:  50 Euro

05      "Lovo, dessins rupestres du Bas-Congo" (22 p. + 50 pl.)

In collaboration with H. van Moorsel, Prehistorian

Documents on Prehistory and ProtoHistory in the Western part of Central Africa
 

	Ngonge, Carnets de Sciences Humaines, 12/13/14, Léopoldville, 1963	Épuisé
	Ed. de l'Université of Léopoldville, 1964	Épuisé
	Paul Raymaekers Foundation (PRF)	2nd Edition	:  20 Euro

 
06   "Ruines de pierres du pays Lobi Ivoirien"

The end of an archeological enigma in Western Africa    

	ARSOM , Brussels,1996
	BEDH, Brussels - Inst. Histoire, Art et Archéologie Africains     (IHAAA - Univ. Nat. Côte d'Ivoire), Abidjan, (33 p.), 1996	Original	:  13 Euro

 
07   "Nzala, autobiographie d'un coopérant en Afrique centrale"

36 years of astonishments in Central Africa

	Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC), 74 p., 1992
	Ed. J.M. Collet, 272 p., Braine-l'Alleud, 1993	Original	:  25 Euro

 
08    "Ngonge, Carnets de Sciences Humaines" (1960-2000)

Bundle of previously unpublished articles gathered for publication in Ngonge (Bulletin of the BEDH), with the collaboration of 52 western and african scientists.

The 140 communications out of the " Ngonge, Carnets de Sciences Humaines" are bundled in view of publication in one single book.  The book will be prefaced by Jean Ladrière, Honorary President of the Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL-LLN).

The Library of the Foundation will provide all specific brochures on request

Per copy

:  9 Euro

09      "Préhistoire et Protohistoire du Haut-Comoé (Côte d'Ivoire)" (20 p.)

Prehistory of countries on the verge of the Sahel

ARSOM, Brussels, 1998

Copy

:  8 Euro

10      "L'origine romaine des fers à esclaves marocains" (17 p.)

Amazing discovery

ARSOM, Brussels, 2005

Copy

:  10 Euro

 

11      "Prospection archéologique de la vallée laotienne du fleuve Mékong"

Two volumes (139 p. + 200 p.) on Prehistory and Protohistory of one of the most famous streams in South-East Asia

Archaeopress, BAR International Series 972, Oxford, 2001

Original I Original II

:   50 Euro :   80 Euro

12      In preparation , but available for consultation :

"Histoires de là-bas..."  (54 p.)

Forty anecdotes on men and beasts in Central Africa, in the middle of the XXth century
 

PRF, 2007

Original

:  20 Euro

13      "Une base avancée de la Royal Air Force à Banana (R.D.C.) durant la seconde Guerre Mondiale"   (18 p.)

Catalina and Sunderland Seaplanes at the mouth of the Congo river between March 1943 and September 1944
 

PRF, 2008

Original

:  20 Euro

 

  As already mentionned, books and/or brochures can be obtained on request up to the exhaustion of the stock of printed copies.

For the other documents, photocopies can be requested at the Foundation.

The amount in Euros indicated behind each document include the cost of the document and the Post expenses within Europe.
 

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