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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14842
Title:: Two letters in Chinese, with envelopes. [Chen guo sheng xin zha]. [陳囯陞信札].
Scope & Content:: Two letters in Chinese on white and pink paper, with their envelopes.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14846
Title:: Album of Chinese drawings of fish, in black outline, with names in Chinese. [Zhongguo yu lei tu hui]. [中國魚類圖繪].
Scope & Content:: Fishes: Drawings of: Chinese.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15503
Title:: [Zhongguo dong zhi wu tu hui]. [中國動植物圖繪]. A volume of colour drawings of Chinese animals, birds, insects, fishes, reptiles, plants, with names in Chinese. From the Sloane Collection. Reported on the spine: Drawings of Chinese animals, plants, etc. Mus. Brit. 15,503 Plut.
Scope & Content:: Album of coloured drawings of Chinese flora and fauna with a total of 1096 illustrations and captions in Chinese for each figure. Some notes added in pencil are an attempt to describe the illustrations with Latin or English names. From the Sloane collection.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item (275 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15718
Title:: 靈魂篇
Scope & Content:: Dr William Milne, Missionary in China: Treatise on the immortality of the soul.: Chinese. A WORK in Chinese, in two parts, to which is prefixed the following title by a recent band, " Dr. Milne's [Dr. William Milne, missionary in China?] treatise on the Immortality of the Soul. XVIII cent. Tall...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item (186 folios)

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
Title:: Genealogy of the Wang family during 34 generations.
Scope & Content:: [Yin xian] xu xiu Wang shi zong pu. [鄞縣]續修王氏宗譜三卷. Genealogy of the Wang family by Chen Hongsheng. The genealogy includes thirty-four generations, traced up to the Tang dynasty. The work is arranged in three parts, the last of which contains portraits of the chief dignitaries of this family....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1782
Extent:: 1 item (148 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 16282
Title:: Huang ming jing ji lu. 皇明經濟錄四卷. [Records of the political institutions of the Ming dynasty].
Scope & Content:: Huang ming jing ji lu. 皇明經濟錄四卷. Records of the political institutions of the Ming dynasty in a series of Official Papers, from the 14th to the 16th century, arranged according to subjects. Each paper bears the name of its author. In four parts.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 item (457 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16283
Title:: 'An Nam Chii Lược' (Sketches of Annam by Lê Tắc)
Scope & Content:: The oldest known example of a history written in Hán (classical Chinese) by a private individual as distinct from official history. Lê Tắc, a former Vietnamese official from Nghệ An, wrote this piece in China after he went there with the Mongol invaders in 1285.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 7 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16284
Title:: Chen wen gong gong feng su tiao yue. Jiangsu qian cao jie lve. 陳文恭公風俗條約一卷. 江蘇錢漕節略一卷.
Scope & Content:: The management of affairs of the Jiangsu Province; compiled by a Deputy-Governor in 1759. Këang-Soo tsëen tseih leo, a short essay on the finances of Këang-Soo. Small Quarto.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1759
Extent:: 1 item (20 folios).

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