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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15818
Title:: Chinese concertina item with illustrations of Buddhist saints on leaves of ficus religiosa, or Bodhi tree.
Scope & Content:: Chinese concertina item with illustrations on leaves of ficus religiosa.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 volume (20 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16594-16595
Title:: LO-THEËN E FUNG, etc. A description of the manners and customs of various wild tribes of the Kwei chow province, in the interior of China, illustrated with colored drawings
Scope & Content:: In Chinese. 2 vols. Folio. [16,594, 16,595.]
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16597-16602
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16634
Title:: LEIH FA WAN TA, Conversations on Astronomy; containing a complete treatise on the modern European system, arranged in seven parts, i. Jih Chen, the course of the sun ; ii. Yue le, the course of the moon ; iii. iv. Wan chih, the science of eclipses; v. Hang sing, on the fixed stars; vi. vii. Woo-hwyy, on the five planets. Written at the beginning of the xviiith cent. At the end are some notes and calculations by a later hand in French. [Cf. Add. MS. 19,258] Quarto. [16,634.]
Scope & Content:: Astronomy: Conversations on: in Chinese.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17327
Title:: [Dinghai xian ji Zhoushan qun dao tu]. [定海縣及舟山群島圖]. A coloured map of the county of Dinghai in the island of Zhoushan (or Chusan).
Scope & Content:: A coloured map of the county of Dinghai in the island of Zhoushan (or Chusan). County of Dinghai: Map with outlines of. Zhoushan, China: Map of.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1848
Extent:: 1 handscroll.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17344
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18104
Title:: Vocabularium Sinico-Mantschuico-Ruthenum, juxta ordinem rerum compositum ab Alexei Leontieff, anno 1773, cum interpretatione Germanica Gerhardi Martens . . . . Author: Leontīev, Aleksi͡eĭ, -1786
Scope & Content:: Dictionary compiled by Aleksi͡eĭ Leontīev in 1773, based on a Chinese-Manchu classified vocabulary. Manchu and Chinese entries above, and Russian entries below. After folio 41, it is interleaved with a German transliteration, by Gerhard Mertens in 1782) on pale blue paper. Language. Dictionari...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, German, Latin, Manchu, and Russian
Date Range:: 1773?
Extent:: 1 volume (145 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19577
Title:: COLOURED plan of the city of Pekin, by a native artist; with references in English to the Chinese names of buildings, added in 1842. Measuring 2 ft. 91/2 in. by 3ft. 7 in. Paper. [Add. 19,577.]
Scope & Content:: City of Peking: Plan of.: Chinese.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22048
Title:: 首善全圖 Shou shan quan tu [Map of Peking]
Scope & Content:: This coloured map shows a detailed city view of the capital Peking (now Beijing, China). The map covers the area from Anding men (Chi: 安定門) and Desheng men (Chi: 德勝門) to Yongding men (Chi: 永定門) and Zuo’an men (Chi: 左安門)、You’an men (Chi: 右安門). The black and white version of this map is availabl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 scroll

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