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11. Add MS 15347

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Add MS 15347
Title:
'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย = Maleyyatheravannana
Scope & Content:
Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. The illustrations represent celestial beings (devata), and the tortures of the damned in hell. Fol. 2: "namo tassa… namo tassa… tilokasettham tam buddham dhammanavaniyanikam samgham nikkhanañceva abhivadi bhasiss...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali and Thai
Date Range:
1830-1838
Extent:
85 folios

12. Add MS 19351

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Add MS 19351
Title:
Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:
Fortune telling manual with drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Fragment with some folio...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Burmese and Thai
Date Range:
1760-1853
Extent:

20 folios (paginated 1-39)

13. Add MS 21929

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Add MS 21929
Title:
Thai grammar, part 1. ไวยากรณ์
Scope & Content:
Part 1 of a Grammar of the Siamese or Thai language, presented by Dorner Augustus Chase, Captain, Bengal Army. Deals principally with the phonology and script. Dated 1856 A.D.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Thai
Date Range:
1856
Extent:

13 folios

14. Add MS 27370

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Add MS 27370
Title:
Drawings from the Traiphum ไตรภูมิพระร่วง and the Ten Birth Tales ทสชาติ
Scope & Content:
Drawings of the cosmology and mythology of Siam, in colours and pencil. Some of these are connected with the Traibhumikatha, the Thai Buddhist cosmogony of heaven, earth and hell; some depict scenes from The Ten Birth Tales; others are astrological, while f. 18 is a drawing of the reception of L...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
19 folios

15. Add MS 46172

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Add MS 46172
Title:
MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Letter from Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian statesman, to Nassau William Senior, economist, forwarding a publication of the Sardinian government on charitable institutions; 4 Jan. 1842. French. For another letter from Cavour to Senior, 1836, see A. J. Whyte, Early Life and Letters of Cavour, 1810-1848, 1925, p. 159. ff. 1-2. Presented, through the British Records Assoc iation, by the executors of Henry Robert Morgan, Esq. B. Survey by Will...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 3 Clayworth, Nottinghamshire: Survey of lands of S. Wright, etc., in: 1713.ff. 3-12b William Wright: Survey by, in cos. Nott. and Linc.: 1713.ff. 3-12b Sarah Wright, daughter of Roger Wright: Survey of her lands: 1713.f. 4 Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire: Survey of S. Wright...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, and Thai
Date Range:
1100-1936
Extent:
1 item