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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Burmese Level [32] Fonds

1. EAP104/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP104/1
Title:
Selection of records from the Pa'O Literary and Cultural Council Committee Library Manuscript Archive
Scope & Content:
This fonds contains digital copies of 71 Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts. The manuscripts contain diverse works, including Pa'O Theravada Buddhist elucidations of the Tripitaka: Vinaya, Abhidharma, and Suttas; Jataka stories; medicinal texts; astrologies; historical documents; and litera...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese, Karen Languages, Pa'O, and Shan
Date Range:
1895-1986
Extent:
137 files containing 8682 TIFF images

2. EAP454/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/2
Title:
Pi Lalengliani collection of Chaltlang chief R. D. Leta's materials [1906-1929]
Scope & Content:
Held at Pi Lalengliani's home in Chaltlang, these materials are mainly those of her great-grandfather, R. D. Leta, Chief of Chaltlang, and cluster around themes of judgement, education, government, religion, and everyday life in Aizawl, from 1906 to 1929. This collection's epicentre is clearly t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese, English, Hindi, and Lushai
Date Range:
Oct 2011
Extent:
327 Tiff images

3. EAP689/21

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP689/21
Title:
Chellappan Chettiyar collection [1898-1950]
Scope & Content:
This collection contains 274 documents consisting of 13 handwritten notebooks and 261 printed, handwritten and typed paper documents. The documents include accounts transactions, record documents, court communications and numerous correspondances which have been categorised into postcards, temple...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese, English, and Tamil
Date Range:
1898-1950
Extent:
Collection contains 21514 TIFF images

4. EAP691/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP691/3
Title:
Collection from Vat Saen Sukkharam Monastery
Scope & Content:
The whole collection consists of palm-leaf manuscripts (762) and paper manuscripts (87) kept at four different buildings/repositeries. The whole collection of manuscripts is under the responsibility of the monastery, along with the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization, Luang Prabang province. The...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese, Khun, Lao, Pali, Tai languages, Thai, and Undetermined
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
20218 Tiff images

5. EAP756/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/1
Title:
ဝက်လက်မြို့နယ် ဟန်လင်းမြို့ ညောင်ကိုးပင်ကျောင်းစာစု
Scope & Content:
The collection of palm-leaf and leporello manuscripts deposited at the Ññoṅʻ kuiʺ paṅʻ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Nyaung-ko-bin-kyaung) in Halin village includes a sizeable corpus of Pāli and bilingual (Pāli and Burmese) Buddhist texts copied in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1699-1911
Extent:
19285 TIFF images

6. EAP756/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/2
Title:
ဝက်လက်မြို့နယ် ဟန်လင်းမြို့ ခေမာသီဝံကျောင်းတိုက် စာစု
Scope & Content:
The collection of Khemāsīvaṃ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Khemathiwun-kyaung) is comprised of forty-one manuscripts or manuscript fragments, the majority of them representing curricular, protective, preaching and erudite works. The core of the collection is made of multiple-text manuscripts comm...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1730-1930
Extent:
1949 TIFF images

7. EAP756/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/3
Title:
ဝက်လက်မြို့နယ် ဟန်လင်းမြို့ ရွှေဂူကြီးကျောင်းတိုက် စာစု
Scope & Content:
Rhve gū krīʺ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Shwe-gu-gyi-kyaung) is a historically prominent monastery. It is associated with the most venerated Buddhist stupa of Halin, a monument whose foundation is ascribed to Indian emperor Asoka. Manuscripts kept there include approximately one hundred and thi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1840-1920
Extent:
304 TIFF images

8. EAP756/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/4
Title:
ဝက်လက်မြို့နယ် ဖွတ်လှိုင်းရွာ အရှေ့ကျောင်းစာစု
Scope & Content:
The collection of the Phvat‘ lhuiṅ‘ʺ ’A rheʹ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pron. Hput-hlaing Ashay-kyaung) represents the remains of a sizeable and well-resourced archive of Buddhist texts. It goes beyond what is ordinary for an average village site and includes all major components that might be found in c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1730-1873
Extent:
2872 TIFF images

9. EAP756/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/5
Title:
ရွှေဘိုမြို့နယ် ပန်းတောင်းရွာ ရွာရင်းကျောင်းစာစု
Scope & Content:
Rvā raṅʻʺ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Ywa-yin-kyaung) in Panʻʺ toṅʻʺ village (pron. Pa-daung) holds a mid-sized collection of palm-leaf manuscripts dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Very few of these manuscripts (SB-PD-YYK 002, 029) were produced for that place or another monas...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1728-1922
Extent:
564 TIFF images

10. EAP756/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP756/6
Title:
ရွှေဘိုမြို့နယ် သီလုံးရွာ ကန်ရင်းကျောင်းစာစု
Scope & Content:
The collection of Kanʻ raṅʻʺ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Kan-yin-kyaung) in Sī luṃ‘ʺ (pronounced Tha-lon) village is a relatively small body of curricular, liturgical, and disciplinary works. A notable place in the collection is occupied by copies of works of monk Candimā (1786-1860), who is be...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
Nov 1780-Dec 1916
Extent:
12 TIFF images