Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Land use - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1217/1/2917
Title:: மனையலங்காரம் மூலமும் உரையும்
Scope & Content:: This work Manaiyalagara sastra dealt with selection of land for building a house, owner’s nature, astrological systems, details of fixing door, window, structure, according to vastu sastra, etc. வீடுகட்டுபவன் இலக்கணம், வீடுகட்ட சிறந்த நிலம், சகுனங்கள், மரங்கள், வீட்டின் வாசல், கதவு, நிலை, வீட்ட...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 64

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18
Title:: Sherab Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 462

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An Earth Lord text. A text for a ritual for propitiating earth lords, for example when building a new house on new land. Earth Lord (Tib. ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag). The text is full of complex tables / ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20
Title:: Thukten Chhoezang Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Thukten Chhoezang. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Loose texts kept in the prayer room in a cardboard box.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 181

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/11
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The cover is very dark cover so the title text is hard to read. This is an offering to the 100 deities who reside in Ganden, a Buddhist heaven, a pure joyous land occupied by Buddhas and Boddhisatva...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 6

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1
Title:: Jaffna Bishop’s House Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of documents and manuscripts (including some typed letters and some printed documents) dating from the period 1750 to 1950. They reflect the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1775-1948
Extent:: 110642

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/10/3
Title:: [A small set of letters on various subjects, among others the putting up of a new Girls' School on Reclamation land - letters to and from Jaffna Bishops Mgr. Joulain and Mgr. Guyomar (1896-1933). ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 52 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-34.5cm, W-25cm, D-1cm. Condition of original material: Fragile.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1896-1933
Extent:: 752

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