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11. Or 6997

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6997
Title:
Chosŏndo 朝鮮圖
Scope & Content:
A set of 26 maps of Korea. Each map contains a section across the peninsula, folded between original yellowish brown paper covers. The covers of individual maps bear the names of the main locations in each. The maps have been bound into 2 Western bindings after entering the British Museum with...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1800-1900
Extent:
2 volumes

12. Or 6998

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6998
Title:
Tongsa kangmok 東史綱目
Scope & Content:
A manuscript copy of the 'Compendium of Eastern history' compiled by An Chŏng-bok 安鼎福 (1712-1791), an account of Korean history to the end of the Koryŏ Dynasty in 1392. The manuscript is undated but contains the original preface of 1778: 聖上卽祚之三年戊戌(1778)仲春...安鼎福書于木州之用晦堂中.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1778-1900
Extent:
20 volumes

13. Or 7362

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7362
Title:
Ch'unch'u yŏlgukchi
Scope & Content:
A Korean novel set during the "Spring and Autumn Period" of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, possibly based on an unidentified Chinese original. The manuscript is written in several different hands and the volumes vary in size suggesting that it may have been a composite set put together for a lending...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1759-1762
Extent:
7 volumes (1244 folios)

14. Or 7363

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7363
Title:
Kŭmsansa changŏp yŏnŭi 금산사창업연의
Scope & Content:
'Romance of the Foundation Feast at the Chin Shan Temple'. Title from head of text. Cover title: Kŭmsansa mongyurok 金山寺夢遊録 'Record of a Dream Journey to the Chin Shan Temple'. A Korean novel set in China in which the founders of several Chinese dynasties attend a banquet at the Chin Shan Temple...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1796
Extent:
1 volume (75 folios)

15. Or 7367

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7367
Title:
Chosŏndo 朝鮮圖
Scope & Content:
A set of nine maps comprising a map of the whole of Korea and individual maps of the eight provinces according to the traditional system used until 1895 . The bound volume has the spine title 'Atlas of Korea', individual maps have titles on the reverse in Hangŭl. Map 1: 팔도총도, 2: 경기도, 3: 츙쳥도 [충청...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
c.1800-1895
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

16. Or 7377

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7377
Title:
Taebang kwangbul Hwaŏmgyŏng 大方廣佛華彦嚴經. Volume 32
Scope & Content:
An illustrated Korean manuscript of volume 32 (part of Chapter 25) of the 'Buddhāvatamsaka-mahāvaipula Sūtra' or 'Avatamsaka Sūtra' [Flower Garland Sutra], one of the major texts of the Chinese Huayuan (Korean: Hwaŏm) school of Buddhism. The manuscript has no colophon and is undated but on sty...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Korean
Date Range:
1392-1420
Extent:
1 volume (58 pages)

17. Or 7439

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7439
Title:
Taejŏn hoet‛ong 大典會通
Scope & Content:
A manuscript copy of the 'Updated Great Code' , a collection of Korean laws compiled by Cho Tu-sun 趙斗淳 (1796-1870) . This manuscript is undated but includes the preface dated 同治四年 [1865] found in the printed edition published in that year. It was acquired by Ernest Satow in Japan before 1885.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1865-1885
Extent:

1 volume (392 folios)

18. Or 7449

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7449
Title:
Chōsen kokuji toku 朝鮮國字讀
Scope & Content:
A copy of a Korean reading book written by the Japanese scholar and bureaucrat Arai Hakuseki 新井白石 (1657-1725). The Korean rendering of the title is 'Chosŏn kukcha tok'. The text is in Korean Hangŭl script with a Japanese interlinear translation in katakana/kanji script. The colophon is dated 172...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese and Korean
Date Range:
1720-1885
Extent:

1 volume (37 folios)

19. Or 7458

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7458
Title:
Kisa chin p'yori chinch'an ŭigwe 己巳進表裏進饌儀軌
Scope & Content:
An illustrated Korean manuscript describing ceremonies conducted in the first month of 1809 to mark the 60th anniversary of the consummation of the marriage of Lady Hyegyŏng (Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi, 1735-1815 惠慶宮洪氏), widow of Crown Prince Sado of Korea.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
94 folios

20. Or 7609

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7609
Title:
Ch'ŏnsang Yŏlch'a Punyajido 天象列次分野之圖
Scope & Content:
A Korean star chart. 19th century copy of the chart of constellations originally prodcued for King Taejo in 1395.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1800-1900
Extent:
1 sheet