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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7411
Title:: [Xiuning liu tang Zhan shi jia chuan]. [休寧流塘詹氏家傳]. Illuminated genealogy of the Zhan family.
Scope & Content:: A scroll containing calligraphy and coloured potraits of the Zhan family, descendants of King Suan (or Hsüan), the eleventh king of the Zhou dynasty. This work was originally complied by Wang Huijing in 1677. This is a manuscript copy made in 1774.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1774
Extent:: 1 scroll.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7413
Title:: 太上靈寶朝天謝罪懺
Scope & Content:: Ten manuscript chapters of Daoist text 太上靈寶朝天謝罪懺 (Tai shang ling bao chao tian xie zui chan) bound in one Western-style volume.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1870
Extent:: 1 volume (278 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7455
Title:: [馬禮遜漢英字典草稿] [Malixun Han Ying zi dian cao gao] [Preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary]
Scope & Content:: The preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary, with an introductory essay in English on the problems of Chinese/Western language dictionaries. It is arranged by radical order. It contains different sections, including "Mr Morrison's orthography of the Chinese language" and a tabl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 volume (139 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7456
Title:: 誠心痛悔前過
Scope & Content:: A manuscript volume recording the repentance of Shi Chang (世昌) to God.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1899
Extent:: 1 volume (20 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7690
Title:: 康熙聖諭 Kangxi sheng yu
Scope & Content:: Copy of Imperial edict ordering a geographical survey of the Empire on the 59th year of the Kangxi Emperor (= 1720).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1720-1912
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1506-2125
Title:: Oracle bone collection 甲骨
Scope & Content:: A unique series of oracle bones (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection. These animal bones date from the late Shang dynasty (around 1300-1050 BCE) and are among the oldest items in the British Library. They bear carved inscriptions which record divination rituals involving the Shang ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1300-1050BC
Extent:: Inscribed bones from China, dating from between 1300 and 1050 BCE.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7857/1
Title:: 四庫鴻文：乾隆御覽制寳 Si ku hong wen: Qianlong yu lan zhi bao
Scope & Content:: Six miscellaneous essays by Emperor Qianlong written by Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1795-c 1799
Extent:: Volume 1 of 2 (38 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7857/2
Title:: 四庫鴻文：乾隆御覽制寳 Si ku hong wen: Qianlong yu lan zhi bao
Scope & Content:: Six miscellaneous essays by Emperor Qianlong written by Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1795-c 1799
Extent:: Volume 2 of 2 (47 folios)

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