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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 5292

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 5292-5294

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Add MS 5292-5294
Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
Three volumes of drawings of flowers, plants and fruits by unknown Chinese artists, commissioned by James Cuninghame [Cunningham].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
3 volumes

4. Add MS 5293

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Add MS 5293
Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The second of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5304

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Title:
Chinese drawings of plants, with their Chinese names
Scope & Content:
In 6 parts, bound in traditional Chinese reading order, from right to left. Part 1: 96 drawings. Part 2: 103 drawings. Part 3: 102 drawings. Part 4: 101 drawings. Part 5: 101 drawings. Part 6: 97 drawings. Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Digitised with support from the Oak S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Sloane MS 1-4100

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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

7. Sloane MS 1403A

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Sloane MS 1403A
Title:
Javanese document
Scope & Content:
A single piece of palm-leaf, with Javanese text on one side, and Chinese on the reverse. The Chinese text is a record of the purchase of four cows, and is dated possibly 1715: 乙未年正月初五日買牛四隻艮□廿九文□ The text is dated 乙未年正月初五日, 5th day of 1st month of yi wei year, equivalent to 10 Feb 1655 (Shunzh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Javanese
Date Range:
1715
Extent:

1 folio of palm-leaf

8. Sloane MS 1403E

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Sloane MS 1403E
Title:
Javanese document
Scope & Content:
A single piece of bamboo, with two lines of Javanese text and annotations in Javanese and Lampung script on one side, and Chinese on the reverse. Probably a record of an account, possibly dated 1708. Chinese text: □甲螺打甲之厘勿殺 〇之厘勿殺同□□再借去鉛子四仟/戊子年四月十四日借去鉛子拾伍仟議还米每文六于冬算〇係去覽榜限至三箇月。 The text is dated ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Javanese
Date Range:
1708
Extent:

1 piece of bamboo

9. Sloane MS 4019

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Sloane MS 4019
Title:
Scope & Content:
Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Fragments of miscellaneous catalogues: 18th cent. Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Collection of his loose papers and letters: 17th-18th centt. includes: f. 1 Le Normand Cany: Description of hangings made by: 18th cent. f. 5 Theophrastus: Notæ ex ejus libro "De tribus P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item