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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1150/1
Title:: Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
Scope & Content:: A private library of Pali and vernacular Burmese palm-leaf manuscripts from Burma. Custodial history: The manuscripts were collected by Peter Skilling over the past several decades. Additional date information: Manuscripts included in the collection were created/copied between the 17th–20th ce...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Burmese and Pali
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 70296 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 736
Title:: ပါရာဇိက Pārājika
Scope & Content:: Pārājika, the first book of the Vinaya piṭaka. Numbered ခီ-ဎီ. Burmese inscription on last leaf as: စလေမြို့စားမင်းကောင်းမှု. Copied in 1824. Wrapped in a woven silk wrapper with Burmese text.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese and Pali
Date Range:: 1824
Extent:: 1 volume; 146 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 852 A-C
Title:: A MANUSCRIPT written in the Burmese character, upon 32 leaves of the talipot tree; 5 in. x 2 in. ; -A piece of wood in the form of a dagger blade, from Birmah, supposed to be used in conjunction with the manuscript, for magical purposes ;-A leaf of the talipot, inscribed on both sides in the Burmese character. [Bibl. Eg. 852. A. B. C.]
Scope & Content:: Burmese MSS
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1116
Title:: သုတ္တသင်္ဂဟနိဿယ Sutta saṅ‘gaha nissaya
Scope & Content:: သုတ္တသင်္ဂဟနိဿယ (နန္ဒမာလာ)။ Commentary to the Sutta saṅgaha, written by Nandamāla. Numbered ကာ-ဝံ ( lacks က). Copied in1804.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 1 volume; 347 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/S
Title:: Linguistic Survey of India Records
Scope & Content:: These records comprise the Files of Sir George Grierson, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey, 1898-1902. They consist mainly of his correspondence with various scholars and institutions, and Files, containing basic research data, such as examples of India languages and dialects; also publishe...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: A-sho, Abor, Angani, Ao, Arakanese, Asho-zo, Assamese, Bengali, Bhili, Bhotia, Bihari, Burmese, Central Pahari, Chingpaw, Chyang, Coorgi, Danaw, Dima-sa, Dulien, Eastern Pahari, English, Gadaba, Garo, Gondi, Gujarati, Gurung, Hatigorria, Hills Kachari, Hindi, Hkun, Kachin, Kanarese, Kandhi, Karen Languages, Khandesi, Kharia, Khas-kura, Khasi, Kherwari, Khond, Khun, Khyang, Kodagu, Kolami, Kota, Kui, Kurku, Kurukh, Lai, Lepcha, Lisu, Luhupa, Luppa, Lushei, Magahi, Magar, Magari, Malayalam, Mande Kusik, Marathi, Mikir, Modern Mon, Mro, Mru, Naipali, Newari, Orao, Oriya, Palaung, Phon, Phun, Rajasthani, Rong, Sanskrit, Savara, Shan, Sho, Sindhi, Talaing, Tamil, Tangkhul, Taungtha, Taungyo, Telugu, Toda, Tulu, Tuluva, Tulvi, Western Pahari Languages, and Yawyin
Date Range:: 1890-1938
Extent:: 396 files and gramophone records

Reference (shelfmark):: MAN/BUR 569
Title:: မနုဝဏ္ဏနာ Manu vaṇṇanā
Scope & Content:: Burmese Buddhist Law in Pali with Burmese nissaya. This manuscriptcomprises ten volumes as follows: (၁) ပထမတွဲ (က-ခေါ) (၂) ဒုတိယတွဲ (ခံ-ငေ) (၃) တတိယတွဲ (ငဲ-ဆော်) (၄) စတုတ္တတွဲ (ဆံ-ညီ) (၅) ပဉ္စမတွဲ (ညု-ဍီ) (၆) ဆဌမတွဲ (ဍု-တိ) (၇) သတ္တမတွဲ (တီ-ဒိ) (၈) အဌမတွဲ (ဒီ-ဖိ) (၉) နဝမတွဲ (ဖီ-ဘော်) (...
Collection Area:: Corporate Archives
Languages:: Burmese and Pali
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 335 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MAN/BUR 3500
Title:: မဟာဝင် Mahā vaṅʿ
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is divided as follows:I. (က-ဈီ) - Burmese translation of the Mahavamsa with additions from the Mahavamsa tika and a continuation of the history of Ceylon.II. (ဈု-ဈဲ) - Brief summary of Burmese history.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 1795
Extent:: 104 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MAN/BUR 3501
Title:: ရခိုင်ရာဇဝင် Rakhuiṅʿ rājavaṅʿ
Scope & Content:: History of the Kingdom of Arakan from its origin to the year 821 taken from the ancient Arakanese Chronicles.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 46 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Burmese 73
Title:: [Mantra]
Scope & Content:: Written on both sides with some illustrations and tables contains letters and numerals.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 8 folios

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