Iroko Historical Society · Per Medjat
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Per Medjat
House of Written Knowledge

The public interface for ontology-aligned collections of the Iroko Historical Society. Records are presented with explicit stewardship boundaries; governed material is signaled, not silently erased.

1 collection live · 50 pilot records · 750+ plant corpus in development · 3 collections planned

pr mdꜣt / Per Medjat, house of books, house of scrolls (Ancient Egyptian). The institutional form of the Medjat: a governed house of records where access, transmission, and stewardship are made explicit. Cf. Yorùbá Ilé, the house that holds the tradition.

Collections

Published holdings
Medjat Library
Cataloged scholarly and reference materials supporting research into Afro-Atlantic sacred knowledge systems. Published works, field editions, reference literature, and the IHS Research Library catalog.
Structured access · Catalog browsing · Research support
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Primary source & governed collections
Medjat Archives
Archival and field collections governed under the six-tier Iroko Framework access system. Unique materials, sacred texts, community collections, and donor holdings stewarded with explicit community authorization.
Six-tier access · Community governed · Donor intake open
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Featured Collection

Live · Pilot Build
Ewé Sacred Plant Database
50-record structured ethnobotanical corpus integrating botanical, linguistic, and stewardship-aware ritual description from Pierre Fatumbi Verger and Dalia Quiros-Moran. Governs access at the field level using the Iroko Framework Ewé Module.
medjat.irokosociety.org/ewe/ · 50 pilot records · Full corpus 750+ in development
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