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1. Or 40

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Or 40
Title:
English-Loochooan dictionary.
Scope & Content:
Title continues: '...with many phrases in the higher style of the literati, and a glossary of derivatives from the Chinese language'. A dictionary of the Ryukyuan language by the Protestant missionary Bernard Jean Bettelheim. Undated but a reference in Bettelheim's journal records that he comp...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Japanese, and Okinawan
Date Range:
1846-1851
Extent:
1 volume (679 folios)

2. Or 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 41
Title:
Elements or contributions towards a Loochooan & Japanese grammar.
Scope & Content:
A grammar of the Ryukyuan language by the Protestant missionary Bernard Jean Bettelheim. Originally entitled 'Elements or contributions towards a Japanese grammar', with 'Loochooan &' being added later. Preface dated: Nafa [Naha], 4 September 1849.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Japanese, and Okinawan
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 volume (52 folios)

3. Or 5981 A-C

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5981 A-C
Title:
Visitors' books of Kinryūin tea house, Kanazawa.
Scope & Content:
Three visitors books from the Kinryūin Temple 金龍院 tea house, Kanazawa 金沢containing sketches, poems and comments by Japanese and Western visitors between 1856 and 1883. Original title slip on volume 3 (Or 5981 C) reads: 書画雑詩. Includes one comment in Portuguese accompanied by a portrait (vol. 3 fol...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Japanese, and Portuguese
Date Range:
1856-1883
Extent:
3 volumes (356 folios)

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