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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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/ADD
Title:: Material - Addendum
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous, mostly single-sheet, maps produced for limited circulation, covering China, Hong Kong, East Africa, Nigeria, and other parts of the world.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Chinese, English, and Japanese
Date Range:: 1877-1957
Extent:: 187 map sheets, 7 folios, 4 photographs, 1 booklet (pp.24), and 2 envelopes

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/ADD/7/1
Title:: 滿洲國興地圖. 大日本帝國陸地測部. 昭和十四年
Scope & Content:: A topographical map of Manchukuo. Shows relief with layer shading and spot heights, hydrology, settlements, communication and boundaries. Principal place-names are given in Chinese characters; other place-names are given in Katakana
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Chinese and Japanese
Date Range:: 1939
Extent:: 4 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT/ADD/12
Title:: '湖北省城內外詳圖'. Detailed map of Hupeh City (Wuchang) and its suburbs
Scope & Content:: A copy of a Chinese map of Wuchang, Hupeh, to which has been added place-names in Wade-Giles romanisation. Shows hydrology, relief with form lines, roads, significant buildings, and the line of the projected Canton-Hankow railway
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: ca 1926
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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