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12. Add MS 16624
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16624
- Title:
- Bhagavata Purana
- Scope & Content:
- Bhagavata Purana in Sanskrit copied on a roll (65 ft x 3 in) of burnished paper. The text in minute Devanagari writing is illustrated by miniatures depicting Hindu deities and scenes from the life of Krishna. This manuscript was probably made in Rajasthan in the 18th century.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
13. Add MS 16626
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16626
- Title:
- Vishnusahasranama
- Scope & Content:
- The Vishnusahasranama, the Thousand Names of Vishnu in Sanskrit, an extract from the Mahabharata. Copied in large Devanagari writing by a Kashmirian scribe, Pandit Motirama. The text, enclosed in frames painted in colour and gold, is accompanied by several elaborate miniatures depicting Hindu...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Sanskrit
- Date Range:
- 1812
- Extent:
- 1 item
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. Add MS 26604
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26604
- Title:
- [Philological collections by William Erskine]
- Scope & Content:
- PHILOLOGICAL collections by William Erskine:- 1. A printed table showing "the form of the characters, pronunciation, andpower,ofthe Guzzerat alphabet", and a comparative vocabulary of Sanskrit, Latin, and English, ff. 2, 4. 2. Vocabulary of Catharine II, Empress of Russia, in Sanskrit, Mahra...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Hindustani, Manchu, Marathi, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, and Uighur
- Date Range:
- 1796-1810
- Extent:
- 1 item
20. 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