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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16879
Title:: 中國古代名人圖
Scope & Content:: Twelve silk paintings of famous people accompanied by biographies of each subject printed in Chinese and English. The famous schalors in the volume include Su Shi 蘇軾、Li Bai 李白、Han Yu 韓愈. Each opening has a painting of the figure on the left hand side along with their name and a description in Ch...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1900-1960
Extent:: 1 volume (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16899
Title:: 上論卷十六
Scope & Content:: This silk document includes the text of the Analects (論語). It is believed to have been a tool for cheating during the imperial civil service examinations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1911
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16903
Title:: 縱觀玄覽
Scope & Content:: This piece of calligraphy on fan-shaped golden paper is by Liu Zhengcheng (劉正成, 1946 - ) in 2013. This item was presented to, Graham Hutt, curator of the Chinese collections. The details above can be seen in the colophon: "葛漢先生。癸巳，正成". There are two stamps in red ink: "正成之印" in intaglio and "蜀西...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2013
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16943 (A)
Title:: 拜倫詩歌選 Bailun shi ge xuan [Lord Byron's Poems]
Scope & Content:: Contemporary scroll by calligraphy master Zhang Yulin, with the poems of Lord Byron poems in Chinese. Presented to the British Library by Zhang Yulin's son, Zhang Zimeng.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2015
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16943 (B)
Title:: 大憲章 Da Xianzhang [Magna Carta]
Scope & Content:: Contemporary scroll by calligraphy master Zhang Yulin, with the text of the 1215 Magna Carta in Chinese. Presented to the British Library by Zhang Yulin's son, Zhang Zimeng.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2015
Extent:: 1 scroll

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

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