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1. Add MS 5232

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Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

2. Add MS 8803

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Title:
MATTEO RICCI: Treatise on Friendship; 1595-1599, 1724. Chinese, Italian, and Latin. Autograph. A collection of moral sentences from ancient Western authors put together and translated into Chinese by father Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the famous Jesuit missionary, in Nanchang at the end of 1595, and dedicated to Qian Zhai, prince of Jian'an (Jian'an wang). Ricci's main literary source was probably the 5th edition of Andrea de Rèsende, Sententiae et exempla ex probatissimis quibusque scriptorib...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled brown calf, with original xylographic pastedowns: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 7-29v Matteo Ricci, Jesuit and mathematician: Treatise on Friendship: 1595-1599: Chinese and Ital: autogr. ff. 33-34 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1595-1724
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 11705

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Title:
內府輿地圖 内府舆地图 Nei fu yu di tu ‘Cartes de la Chine’
Scope & Content:
A collection of Maps of China, drawn by M. Klaproth, from Chinese authorities, with the names translated by him partly into German, partly into French.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, French, and German
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 volume (418 folios) with 352 maps.

4. Add MS 11706

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Title:
中國和韃靼局部地圖集 中国和鞑靼局部地图集 Zhongguo he dada ju bu di tu ji [Atlas containing European maps of parts of China and of Tartary]
Scope & Content:
Tartary: Maps of Chinese and Northern Tartary. Maps and Charts: Map of the province of Omsk, in N. Tartary, and of the central north of Mongolia, by H. J. Klaproth. Maps and Charts: Map of Chinese Tartary, with notes by H. J. Klaproth. Maps and Charts: Original map of Cochin China, drawn by t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Manchu
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 item (7 maps bound into one volume)

5. Add MS 11709

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Title:
Han zi xi yu (Han-tzu his-I) Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum juxta clavium ordinem auctum et emendatum. [漢字西譯 汉字西译 Han zi xi yu]
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Han zi xi yu (Han-tzu his-I) 漢字西譯 汉字西译 Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum juxta clavium ordinem auctum et emendatum Henri Jules Klaproth: Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum, juxta clavium ordinem auctum ab eo: 1813. Basilius a Glemona: Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum, juxta ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

6. Add MS 11710

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Title:
緬甸譯語上 缅甸译语上 Miandian yi yu shang [On Burmese Linguistics]
Scope & Content:
Vocabularies: Vocabulary in Burmese and Chinese. Vocabulary in Burmese and Chinese; with a few explanatory notes in Russian. Burmese-Chinese dictionary on various diverse topics including astronomy, geography, flora and fauna. Each word has 3 categories; the first in Burmese, the second in Ch...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

7. Add MS 14420

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Title:
A COLLECTION of papers in Chinese, consisting of several Wan chang or Themes on different subjects; a paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer; three Envelopes of despatches from the authorities at Ningpo ; a Proclamation issued by Ya, governor-general of the provinces of Keang nan and Keang ne, to punish persons spreading reports of the victories of the English, 1841, etc. Small Folio. [14,420]
Scope & Content:
Ya, Governor General of the Provinces of Keang-nan and Keang-ne: Proclamation by: 1841.: Chinese. Empire of China: Collection of papers in Chinese.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 14423

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Title:
[Pu ti ye cai hui fo xiang gang]. [菩提葉彩繪佛像贊]. Vignettes representing manifestations of Buddhist saints, with illustrations on ficus religiosa, or Bodhi tree.
Scope & Content:
Buddhist concertina with illustrations on leaves of ficus religiosa.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
before 1843
Extent:
1 volume (22 folios)

9. Add MS 14841

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Title:
Coloured drawings of Chinese deities by Chinese artists, with the names in Chinese. [Cai hui shen xiang ji]. [彩繪神像集].
Scope & Content:
Chinese drawings illustrating Buddhist and Taoist deities, in a combination of religious drama and religious figure painting. The second half of the item shows handwritten captions of the images, in the hand of Tsaou Seensang. 23 drawings. 10 drawings are covering two pages (465 x 443 mm). T...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
before 1844
Extent:
1 volume (23 folios)

10. Add MS 14842

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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