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12. Add MS 16627
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16627
- Title:
- SIVA-KAVACHA, or Siva's charm, being a Hymn to that divinity; written in Devanagari, with silver letters on a dark ground, apparently in the xviiith century, and ornamented with two miniatures. Duodecimo. [16,627.]
- Scope & Content:
- Siva-Kavacha: : Sanscr.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
13. Add MS 16628
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16628
- Title:
- DEVIMAHATMYA, a Poem in praise of Durgá, being a part of the Márkandeya-Purána; written in a minute Devanaqari character, on a narrow paper roll richly illuminated, in the year Samvat 1866=A.D. 1809. Mounted on rollers, in a morocco case. [16,628]
- Scope & Content:
- Devímahátmya: : Sans.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 1809
- Extent:
- 1 item
14. Add MS 16629 A-B
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16629 A-B
- Title:
- Two copies of the foregoing work, written on similar paper rolls, in small Devanagari character, about the end of the last century, and ornamented with miniatures. In a painted wooden case, and velvet wrapper. [16,629 a, b.]
- Scope & Content:
- Devímahátmya: : Sans.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 2 items
15. Add MS 18184
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18184
- Title:
- DEVÍMAHÁTMYA, a poem in praise of Durgá, being a part of the Márkandeya Purána. In Sanscrit. Paper; written in small Devanagari with gold on a blue ground, in the XVIIIth cent.; with miniatures. A minute volume of 2 in. x 11/2 in. [Add. 18,184.]
- Scope & Content:
- ART. Drawings and Illuminations Indian: Devimahatmya, with miniatures: 18th cent. Devímahátmya: : Sanscr.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
16. Add MS 18717
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18717
- Title:
- A HOROSCOPE in Sanscrit. Paper Roll; XVIIth cent. Presented by John Tregonwell King, Esq. [Add. 18,717.]
- Scope & Content:
- Donors of Mss: King (J. T.). Astrology: Horoscope: Sanscrit.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
17. Add MS 35229
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35229
- Title:
- "CORONA CATHOLICA," by Charles Kent: an epigram in English founded on St. Malachy's prophecy applied to the accession of Leo XIII., with versions in fifty languages, ancient and modern, by various scholars, mostly in the autograph of the translators. The original collection of these versions, published in 1880, is amplified, by the addition of alternative renderings, to almost one hundred. An account of St. Malachy (Archbishop of Armagh, 1134-1148) is prefixed. Paper; ff. 196. About A.D. 188...
- Scope & Content:
- Charles Kent: Corona Catholica: 1880. Saint Malachy,; Archbishop of Armagh (1134-1148): Epigram based on the prophecy of, etc.: 1880. Leo XIII; Pope: Epigram on his accession, with polyglot versions: circ. 1880. includes: f. 19 Count V- Ferrero: Latin version of epigram: 1880. f. 20 Edward W...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish, and Urdu
- Date Range:
- 1880
- Extent:
- 1 item
18. Add MS 88942
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942
- Title:
- The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
- Scope & Content:
- The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- 1732-1952
- Extent:
-
849 files
19. Add Or 1814
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 1814
- Title:
- Aḍhāīdvīpa
- Scope & Content:
- Aḍhāīdvīpa: Jain cosmic diagram inscribed with a few words of explanation in Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script.Tradition similar to Add. Or. 1812, but with Mount Meru surrounded by the regions arranged in a more concentric manner. In the outer terrestrial region, Tīrthaṁkaras are being worshipped at...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 1830
- Extent:
-
Gouache on cotton cloth. Floral spandrels and border. 112x112cm
20. Aufrecht 23 d
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Aufrecht 23 d
- Title:
- extracts from the Ādityasūtrabhāshya-vārttikavivṛiti
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 1900-1900
- Extent:
- ff.4 (pages13-17)