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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19351
Title:: Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:: Fortune telling manual with drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Fragment with some folio...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese and Thai
Date Range:: 1760-1853
Extent:: 20 folios (paginated 1-39)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23939
Title:: Kammavaca ကမ္မဝါစာ
Scope & Content:: Burmese Buddhist ordination text, with border decorations in Thai style of the late 18th or 19th century. For detailed description of No. 23,939, see the Catalogue of Oriental MSS.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese and Pali
Date Range:: 1770-1850
Extent:: 3 leaves, fragment

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44086-44835
Title:: A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809, d. 1898)
Scope & Content:: Entering Parliament in 1832 as Member for Newark, he held a succession of offices, serving as Prime Minister four times, viz. :-1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894. Full details of his career will be found in the Life by Lord Morley, in which many extracts from these papers are printed. Cf. al...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 787 items

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Buddhist elucidations of the Tripitaka: Vinaya, Abhidharma, and Suttas; Jataka stories; medicinal texts; astrologies; historical documents; and litera...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

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

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

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

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

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

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