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Reference (shelfmark):: Orb 30/8113
Title:: Chinese album of theatre masks
Scope & Content:: Chinese concertina album with 12 illustrations of theatre masks on a silk background. The item appears to be not completed: the front of the folios are blank, as well as the title space.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 1 volume (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB Misc 177
Title:: Eight personal Chinese seals belonging to Yang Xianyi
Scope & Content:: One box with eight seals belonging to Yang Xianyi (1915-2009), classical scholar, Oxford graduate.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1915-2009
Extent:: 1 box (8 seals, 1 letter on paper)

Reference (shelfmark):: Rubbing 62
Title:: <<莫高窟六字真言碣>>拓本
Scope & Content:: Two rubbing inscriptions of the Stele of Sulaiman from the Mogao Caves. '莫高窟' (Mogao Caves) shows on the top, following a four-armed Avalokiteshvara seated in the middle. Surrounding the Boddhisattvas are 'Om mani padme hum' in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, Phags-pa, and Tangut. The st...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Tangut, Tibetan, and Uighur
Date Range:: 1348-1943
Extent:: 1 box (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:: Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:: c 1000-c 1750
Extent:: 4153 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Yongle dadian (24 volumes)
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典
Scope & Content:: Chinese imperial encyclopaedia, commissioned by the Yongle Emperor and completed in 1408. This is the second manuscript edition (Jiajing to Longqing period 1562-72). The volumes are unique and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 24 volumes

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