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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7694/1988
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 7857/1
Title:: 四庫鴻文：乾隆御覽制寳 Si ku hong wen: Qianlong yu lan zhi bao
Scope & Content:: Six miscellaneous essays by Emperor Qianlong written by Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1795-c 1799
Extent:: Volume 1 of 2 (38 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7857/2
Title:: 四庫鴻文：乾隆御覽制寳 Si ku hong wen: Qianlong yu lan zhi bao
Scope & Content:: Six miscellaneous essays by Emperor Qianlong written by Peng Yuanrui (彭元瑞).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1795-c 1799
Extent:: Volume 2 of 2 (47 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7865
Title:: Yugim sisa 六任眎斯
Scope & Content:: A Korean copy of a Chinese work on divination. Chinese reading of title: 'Liu ren shi si'. Cover title:　'Kwachŏn 課傳' The two prefaces are dated 乾隆歳乙未 [1775] but this copy probably dates from the mid 19th century. The main text is in Hanmun but there are annotations in Hangŭl.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Korean
Date Range:: 1775-1875
Extent:: 1 volume (54 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8146
Title:: 茶總
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the accounts of the vendor 三益號 (San yi hao) and records transactions of tea between them and other vendors. There is a stamp on the second folio which provides the address of the vendor and promotes their honesty, integrity and high quality products. It reads: "本號在上洋大東...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1644
Extent:: 1 volume (94 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8147
Title:: Han-i araha Sunja hacin-i hergen kamciha Manju gisun-i buleku bithe, ᡥᠠᠨ ᠢ ᠠᠷᠠᡥᠠ ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ ᡥᠠᠴᠢᠨ ᠢ ᡥᡝᠷᡤᡝᠨ ᡣᠠᠮᠴᠢᡥᠠ ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ ᠢ ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡣᡠ ᠪᡞᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ Yu zhi wu ti Qing wen jian, 御制五體清文鑑 Qaġan-u bicigsen tabun ju̇il-u̇n u̇su̇g-iyer qabsuruġsan manju u̇gen-u̇ toli bicig, ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠤ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌ᠰᠡᠨ ᠲᠠᠪᠤᠨ ᠵᠦᠢᠯ ᠦᠨ ᠦᠰᠦᠭ ᠢᠶᠡᠷ ᠬᠠᠪᠰᠤᠷᠤᠭᠰᠠᠪ ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠤ ᠦᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠲᠣᠯᠢ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌ Rgyal pos mdzad pa’i skad lṅa śan sbyar yi mañdzu’i skad gsal ba’i me loṅ, རྒྱལ་པོས་མཛད་པའི་སྐད་ལྔ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཡི་མཉཛུའི་སྐད་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང ḫān-nīng fütü...
Scope & Content:: "The Mirror of the Manchu Language", pentaglot dictionary compiled during the Qianlong period. In Manchu; Tibetan (a translation of the Manchu in Tibetan script, with transliteration and pronunciation of Tibetan words given in Manchu script); Mongol (translation of the Manchu in Mongolian script)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 32 fascicles and 4 supplementary fascicles bound together as 6 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8153
Title:: [兵器譜] [Bing qi pu] [Catalogue of weapons]
Scope & Content:: Descriptions and illustrations of Chinese military weapons.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1916
Extent:: 1 volume (13 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8159
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 20850-20851
Scope & Content:: Chapters 20850 and 20851 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:: 51 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8209
Title:: Oudeli ke jia hua ci dian. 歐德理客家話詞典. [Eitel's Hakka Dictionary].
Scope & Content:: Dictionary of Hakka compiled by Dr Ernst Johann Eitel, German-born protestant missionary in China and civil servant in Hong Kong (1838-1908).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1838-1908
Extent:: 4 volumes (1475 folios).

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8218
Title:: Vietnamese theatre
Scope & Content:: A collection of 46 plays and legends, possibly from Hue, the capital of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty (1802-1945). Most of the plays do not have the author’s name, date and place except one play (Sự tích ra tuồng) which has a line reading ‘làm vào ngày tháng tốt năm Tự Đức 3’. Trâ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1840-1860
Extent:: 10 volumes

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