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1. Add MS 5232

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Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

2. Add MS 5292

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 5292-5294

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
Three volumes of drawings of flowers, plants and fruits by unknown Chinese artists, commissioned by James Cuninghame [Cunningham].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
3 volumes

4. Add MS 5293

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The second of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5304

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Title:
Chinese drawings of plants, with their Chinese names
Scope & Content:
In 6 parts, bound in traditional Chinese reading order, from right to left. Part 1: 96 drawings. Part 2: 103 drawings. Part 3: 102 drawings. Part 4: 101 drawings. Part 5: 101 drawings. Part 6: 97 drawings. Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Digitised with support from the Oak S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 8803

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Title:
MATTEO RICCI: Treatise on Friendship; 1595-1599, 1724. Chinese, Italian, and Latin. Autograph. A collection of moral sentences from ancient Western authors put together and translated into Chinese by father Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the famous Jesuit missionary, in Nanchang at the end of 1595, and dedicated to Qian Zhai, prince of Jian'an (Jian'an wang). Ricci's main literary source was probably the 5th edition of Andrea de Rèsende, Sententiae et exempla ex probatissimis quibusque scriptorib...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled brown calf, with original xylographic pastedowns: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 7-29v Matteo Ricci, Jesuit and mathematician: Treatise on Friendship: 1595-1599: Chinese and Ital: autogr. ff. 33-34 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1595-1724
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 16281-16365

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Add MS 16281-16365
Title:
Chinese Manuscripts and Maps
Scope & Content:
The following collection of Chinese Manuscripts and Maps, from No. 16,281 to No. 16,365 inclusive, was presented by the Right Hon. Earl of Aberdeen, when Secretary of State. They formed part of the library of Dr. Morrison.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
131 items

8. Add MS 16301

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Scope & Content:
OFFICIAL PAPERS issued from Fung hwa, in thedepartmentof Ning-po, from the 11 th to the 20th year of Taou Kwang [A.D. 1819-18401 Quarto. [16,301.] Empire of China: Official papers from Fung Hwa Ning-po [1819-1840].: Chinese.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
[1819-1840]
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 16597-16602

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Title:
KANGH-EE TSZE TEËN, the Imperial Dictionary of the Emperor Kanghe; one of the most complete Chinese Lexicons, arranged according to the system of the radicals. This is a copy of the printed work, divested of the prolegomena and supplementary books, but interleaved, and augmented with manuscript notes, and with illustrative prints and passages excerpted from various popular works. In six thick volumes. Large Quarto. [16,597-16,602.]
Scope & Content:
Dictionaries: Dictionary of the Emperor Kanghe.: Chinese.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:
6 items

10. Add MS 17344

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Title:
NEU HEAOU KING, or Classic work in Chinese on female filial peity, composed by Ching or Ching She, a female writer of the eighth or ninth century. Illustrated with paintings. A silk roll, 53 ft. 4 in. x 1 ft. 3 in. Executed by Wan-ching-ming, in the 25th year of Kea-Tsing (A.D. 1546). [Add. 17,344.]
Scope & Content:
ART. Drawings and Illuminations Chinese: Paintings: 1546. Wan-ching-ming: Executed: in 1546,: Chinese. Language and Literature of China: Classic work on filial piety by Ching: Chinese.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1546
Extent:
1 item