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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6814/1
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 11887-11888
Scope & Content:: Chapters 11887 and 11888 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 37 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6814/2
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 13876-13878
Scope & Content:: Chapters 13876, 13877 and 13878 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 63 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7377
Title:: Taebang kwangbul Hwaŏmgyŏng 大方廣佛華彦嚴經. Volume 32
Scope & Content:: An illustrated Korean manuscript of volume 32 (part of Chapter 25) of the 'Buddhāvatamsaka-mahāvaipula Sūtra' or 'Avatamsaka Sūtra' [Flower Garland Sutra], one of the major texts of the Chinese Huayuan (Korean: Hwaŏm) school of Buddhism. The manuscript has no colophon and is undated but on sty...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Korean
Date Range:: 1392-1420
Extent:: 1 volume (58 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7411
Title:: [Xiuning liu tang Zhan shi jia chuan]. [休寧流塘詹氏家傳]. Illuminated genealogy of the Zhan family.
Scope & Content:: A scroll containing calligraphy and coloured potraits of the Zhan family, descendants of King Suan (or Hsüan), the eleventh king of the Zhou dynasty. This work was originally complied by Wang Huijing in 1677. This is a manuscript copy made in 1774.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1774
Extent:: 1 scroll.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7455
Title:: [馬禮遜漢英字典草稿] [Malixun Han Ying zi dian cao gao] [Preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary]
Scope & Content:: The preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary, with an introductory essay in English on the problems of Chinese/Western language dictionaries. It is arranged by radical order. It contains different sections, including "Mr Morrison's orthography of the Chinese language" and a tabl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 volume (139 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1506
Title:: Shang dynasty oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1300 BC-1050 BC
Extent:: Inscribed bone from China, dating between 1300 and 1050 BC

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1507
Title:: Shang dynasty oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection. It is believed that the inscription, or part(s) of the inscription, on this particular item may have been added during the twentieth century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1300 BC-1050 BC
Extent:: Inscribed bone from China, dating between 1300 and 1050 BC

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1508
Title:: Shang dynasty oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1300 BC-1050 BC
Extent:: Inscribed bone from China, dating between 1300 and 1050 BC

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1509
Title:: Shang dynasty oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨)
Scope & Content:: Inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1300 BC-1050 BC
Extent:: Inscribed bone from China, dating between 1300 and 1050 BC

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