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1. 15504a2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
15504a2/7
Title:
Photographs of Chengdu
Scope & Content:
Collection of 37 black and white photographs of the city of Chengdu, China.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
before 1926
Extent:
37 black and white photographs

2. Add MS 11709

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11709
Title:
Han zi xi yu (Han-tzu his-I) Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum juxta clavium ordinem auctum et emendatum. [漢字西譯 汉字西译 Han zi xi yu]
Scope & Content:
Han zi xi yu (Han-tzu his-I) 漢字西譯 汉字西译 Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum juxta clavium ordinem auctum et emendatum Henri Jules Klaproth: Basilii a Glemona Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum, juxta clavium ordinem auctum ab eo: 1813. Basilius a Glemona: Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum, juxta ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

3. Add MS 11710

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11710
Title:
緬甸譯語上 缅甸译语上 Miandian yi yu shang [On Burmese Linguistics]
Scope & Content:
Vocabularies: Vocabulary in Burmese and Chinese. Vocabulary in Burmese and Chinese; with a few explanatory notes in Russian. Burmese-Chinese dictionary on various diverse topics including astronomy, geography, flora and fauna. Each word has 3 categories; the first in Burmese, the second in Ch...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

4. Add MS 21179

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 21179
Title:
[Fifty drawings of fish by a Chinese artist]
Scope & Content:
One volume of 50 fish drawings. Most species from the sea. There are no descriptions in the drawings except for the acquisition information and the previous shelfmark.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1855
Extent:
1 volume (50 folios)

5. Add MS 22691

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22691
Title:
Collection of memorials and letters in English, Chinese and Manchu.
Scope & Content:
Contains several memorials and letters in English, Chinese and Manchu. One letter is dated Daoguang 22 (1842), in Chinese and in an English translation, from Lieutenant-General Hailing (海齡) to the Daoguang Emperor. Contains a separate letter in Manchu, also from Hailing, also dated 1842.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Manchu
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:

Letters in Chinese and Manchu, between boards covered with yellow silk, tied with yellow string

6. Add MS 22691 (5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22691 (5)
Title:
A Chinese memorial and an English translation of it
Scope & Content:
Two items bear the reference Or 22691 (5). The first, a memorial in Chinese, was sent from Lieutenant General Hailing (海齡) to the Daoguang Emperor. It is housed within an envelope with Chinese characters giving the date, 1842: (Daoguang 22, 4th Month 4th day), and measures 213 mm x 991 mm when u...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 folded sheet inside an envelope; 1 folded sheet

7. Or 2284

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2284
Title:
Dictionary of Chinese Language
Scope & Content:
This unfinished dictionary (only from A to D) was probably a notebook belonging to a Chinese language learner since it includes random words which are not always exactly accurate. The layout of the content starts from an English keyword on the top and follows with a horizontal column of Chinese...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 17th century
Extent:

1 volume (63 folios)

8. Or 2340

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2340
Title:
Views on the river side in the inner passage between Canton and Macao
Scope & Content:
Watercolour drawing album of views of the river-side in the inner passage from Canton (now Guangzhou, China) to Macao (now Aomen, China) probably by a European artist. The album includes a list of titles (6 folios), images of landscapes (59 folios), hand-drawn maps (7 folios), and a few note s...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1850s-1887
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

9. Or 7360

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7360
Title:
聖跡全圖. Sheng ji chuan tu. Scenes from the life of Confucius (2 volumes).
Scope & Content:
Two concertina volumes with printed illustrations of the life of Confucius, with handwritten captions in Chinese and additional later English notes in pen. It appears to be an incompleted work containing only chapters 1-5 of 24. Written on the item in English: Plates illustrative of the Life o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
before 1815
Extent:

2 volumes (81 folios in total).

11 folios

10. Or 7364

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7364
Title:
[《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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (30 folios).

11 folios

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