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11. Add MS 5293

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The second of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 5294

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The third of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
1 volume

13. Add MS 5304

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Title:
Chinese drawings of plants, with their Chinese names
Scope & Content:
In 6 parts, bound in traditional Chinese reading order, from right to left. Part 1: 96 drawings. Part 2: 103 drawings. Part 3: 102 drawings. Part 4: 101 drawings. Part 5: 101 drawings. Part 6: 97 drawings. Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Digitised with support from the Oak S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Add MS 6940

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Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:
The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+i

15. Add MS 9690

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Title:
Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:
Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+278+ii

16. Add MS 10037

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Title:
Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

17. Add MS 11292

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Title:
PSALTERIUM; Æthiopice. Codex membranaccus, sec. fortassis xiv. Duodecimo. [11,292.]
Scope & Content:
Bible: Psalterium, cum Canticis.: Æthiopice. Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Geez
Date Range:
c 14th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 11293

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Title:
CODEX Armenicus. Membranaceus, sec. fortassis xiv. In Quarto minori. [11,293.]
Scope & Content:
Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 14th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 11620

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Title:
ORGANON Beatæ Mariæ Virginis; Æthiopice: a Doctore Nabessino, Abba Georgio, concinnatum. Codex membranaceus, sec. xv. In Quarto minori. [11,620.]
Scope & Content:
Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Organon B. M. V. a doctore Nabessino Abba Georgio concinnatum.: Æthopice. Georgius, Abbas Rabessinus: Organon Beatae Mariæ Virginis. Æthiopice. Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Geez
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 11621

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Title:
PSALTERIUM cum canticis: item Canticum Canticorum, et laudes Beatæ. Mariæ Virginis. Æhiopice. Codex membranaceus, sec. fortassis xiv. In Quarto minori. [l 1,621.]
Scope & Content:
Prayers: Preces, etc. Æthiopice. Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Laudes B. M. V. Æthiopice. Bible: Psalterium, cum Canticis.: Æthiopice. Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Geez
Date Range:
c 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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