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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Language Sanskrit Level [40] File

1. Add MS 26604

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Title:
[Philological collections by William Erskine]
Scope & Content:
PHILOLOGICAL collections by William Erskine:- 1. A printed table showing "the form of the characters, pronunciation, andpower,ofthe Guzzerat alphabet", and a comparative vocabulary of Sanskrit, Latin, and English, ff. 2, 4. 2. Vocabulary of Catharine II, Empress of Russia, in Sanskrit, Mahra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hindustani, Manchu, Marathi, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, and Uighur
Date Range:
1796-1810
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)

4. Seal CCV.4

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Seal CCV.4
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Scope & Content:
CAST of a seal in Nagari characters being an invocation to Rama in doggerel Sanskrit, probably early 19th cent. Used to seal a letter written by Henry Edward Fox, afterwards 4th Baron Holland, to Eleanor, wife of John Nicholas Fazakerley, M.P., dated at Elba 5 October 1827, now Add. MS. 61937, f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item