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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP910/1/3/10
Title:: Riyaz un Noskhin
Scope & Content:: Collection of 5 religioius treatises, covering the path to finding Allah and the major figures of Islamic history. Parts of treatises 4 and 5 are also related to mathematics. Custodial history: Previously held in an anonymous private collection, Gissar Valley, Tajikistan. Extent and format of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1870
Extent:: 205 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP913/1
Title:: Infa Yattara Family Library Collection
Scope & Content:: This project offers a representative sample of 50 Arabic manuscripts from the Infa Yattara Family Library currently housed in a private facility in Bamako, Mali. It consists of various works in the Islamic sciences, literature, medicine, Qur’an, historical documents as well as treatises in esote...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and French
Date Range:: 1313-1963
Extent:: 1338 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP913/1/48
Title:: مكتوب في أوتاد أهل الغيب
Scope & Content:: A set of writings about numerology, the cardinal directions and other matters related to the hidden world. Page size (cm) (width and height): 17 x 11; Text box size (cm): text fills page; Lines per page: . Condition: minor smudging and edge tearing; no text loss Marginalia; post-script in sec...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 3 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/5
Title:: The private collection of Dr. Shyamal Bera at his residence in Andul, Howrah
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D., live in Howrah district of West Bengal, is a private collector of endangered manuscripts, teracotta objects, Pat (Scroll paintings), folk songs and folk dramas etc of Bengal. By profession he is a school teacher(retired). He is founder secretory of K...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1000 BC-20th century
Extent:: 21591 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/5/2
Title:: Manuscripts from the private collection of Dr Shyamal Bera at his residence in Andul
Scope & Content:: Collection of manuscripts from the private collection of Dr. Shyamal Bera at his residence in Andul, Howrah. Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D., live in Howrah district of West Bengal, is a private collector of endangered manuscripts, teracotta objects, Pat (Scroll paintings), folk so...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, Oriya, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 04th century-18th century
Extent:: 12117 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/5/2/48
Title:: নামতা-ক্রম
Scope & Content:: Multiplication tables and other mathematical notations.; Complete/ Incomplete: Incomplete; Place of composition: Not Known; Date of copying: Not Known. Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D., live in Howrah district of West Bengal, is a private collector of endangered manuscripts, teracot...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 14th century-17th century
Extent:: 3 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/5/2/105
Title:: বাস্তুভূষণ
Scope & Content:: This is a handwritten book with the pages stitched together. The book-manuscript contains several drawings and mathematical calculations related to the science of Vastu (Vastushastra). It also contains some astrological calculations related to child birth (most probably that of the patron and hi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1911
Extent:: 145 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP945/1
Title:: Mr Upendra Bhakta Subedi's Collection of Texts on Hindu Rites and Rituals
Scope & Content:: The material is the collection of Mr Upendra Bhakta Subedi, alias Govinda Baje, 81, a descendant of an illustrious family of Rajopadhyaya Brahmins from the heart of Kathmandu Valley. The collections represent medieval texts on Shaiva Tantric rites and rituals that are distinctly pre‐modern and p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Hindi, Nepali, Newari, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1690-1982
Extent:: 154 files containing 7,266 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP945/1/129
Title:: श्राद्धपद्धति and others
Scope & Content:: श्राद्धपद्धति, MTM, Instructions is Sanskrit and Newari, MTM 1: श्राद्ध; Start: आचमनम्।विश्वेदेवो यजमानस्य ललाटे तिलकं कारयेत्।= सूर्यार्घम्। (fol 15, digital image 015), Fees for conducting the श्राद्ध rituals (fol 26, digital image 026); MTM 2: Stotra of प्रेतपिण्ड during एकोद्दिष्ट (fol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Newari and Sanskrit
Date Range:: c 1982
Extent:: 38 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/1
Title:: Cham manuscripts collected by Mr. Thanh Phan, from Phuoc Nhon Village
Scope & Content:: 36 Cham manuscripts, paper, collected by Mr. Thanh Phan. Subjects include religious ceremonies, traditional customs, Cham Kings, Mantras, ritual guides for building houses, fortune telling, rice field records, poems. Manuscripts were collected for research. purposes by Mr. Thanh Phan, a Cham sch...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and Chamic
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 1336 TIFF images

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