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[《本草綱目》植物名錄]. ["Ben cao gang mu" zhi wu ming lu]. Names of plants described in the Ben cao gang mu (Compendium of Materia Medica).
Scope & Content:
Names of plants described in the Ben cao gang mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), with later additions in pen (English translations and Wade-Giles transliterations) and pencil (some attempts to add the Latin names of the plants listed). The British Museum hard cover spine reports: Or 7364, Brit...
[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...
This manuscript contains the books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Isaiah IV-to end. It was copied in the monastery of St. Simeon, likely in the vicinity of Edessa (Urfa, Türkiye), in 1082 AH (770 CE). It was copied from a the recension of Eusebius Pamphilius, which dates from 690-699 CE.The text was copie...
Cover leaf title: neḥ sātrā sūvān kūm""ār tasīr c'abb nūv thgaiyº 6 14+ 7 chnāṃ khāl doś""ā. End of fascicle 1 and most of fascicle 2 of a Khmer verse novel, perhaps composed as early as the late seventeenth century. Scribal note on back cover reads, in Thai: ขอ ท่านเจ้าคุณได้เอ็นดูเถิดท่านเอ๋ย...
The Tegúrtā d-Heraqlídús, also known as the Bazaar of Heraclides, composed originally by Nestorius. The text is a vindication of Nestorius'' theology and actions. In it, he affirms the unity of Jesus as both God and man and rejects the belief system that came to be known as Nestorianism. The c...
Letters and Other Neo-Aramaic Documents Sent to Eduard Sachau
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A collection of correspondence and notes made in various languages in Northern Iraq, including the following contents. f. 1: First 11 stanzas of a durıktā by Thomas Tektek Sinjar with the Arabic translation in the left column. f. 2: Arabic texts with Neo-Aramaic translation in the left colum...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, English, Italian, and Syriac