Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 14310a
Title:: Narthang Tanjur (1904)
Scope & Content:: Collection of Tibetan translation of canonical Indian Buddhist commentaries covering teachings of the Sutra and Tantra traditions. The blocks carved at the printing house of the sNar thang monastery in Central Tibet from 1741. The prints were probably produced during the 19th century but not late...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1741-1904
Extent:: 220 (out of 223) volumes, vols rgyud 13, rgyud 29, and rgyud 48 missing. Traditional Tibetan pothi format in early 20th century library binding.

Reference (shelfmark):: 15223.c.13
Title:: Qing shu Qian zi wen 清書千字文 [Ciyan dze wen] [ᠴᡞᡪᠠᠨ ᡯᡝ ᠸᡝᠨ]
Scope & Content:: Bai ti Qian wen (Li chao sheng xian zhuan shu bai ti Qian wen) 百體千文 (歷朝聖賢篆書百體千文). The text of the 'Thousand Character Classic' in 125 different styles of calligraphy. A list of 1000 Chinese characters is followed by a transcription of the sounds rendered in Manchu script, covering 11 folios (run...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 15297.d.1
Title:: Inenggidari giyangnaha Cūn Cio-i jurgan be suhe bithe ᡞᠨᡝᡢᡤᡞᡩᠠᠷᡞ ᡤᡞᠶᠠᡢᠨᠠᡥᠠ ᠴᡡᠨ ᠴᡞᠣ ᠢ ᠵᡠᠷᡤᠠᠨ ᠪᡝ ᠰᡠᡥᡝ ᠪᡞᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ [Ri jiang Chun Qiu jie yi] [日講春秋解義]
Scope & Content:: In Manchu. Separate leaves from juan 21, 22, 27 and 28 of the 'Daily Lectures on the Meaning of the Spring and Autumn Annals', used as backing paper for the 6 fasciculi of Wu Jing's (吳兢) Zhenguan zhengyao (貞觀政要). Walter Fuchs (1936) dates this work to 1738.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Manchu
Date Range:: 1738
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 15344.d.10/6
Title:: 'Hua yi yi yu' 華夷譯語
Scope & Content:: Vocabulary arranged under 17 categories of the Lao / Northern Thai language, with meaning and pronunciation in Chinese. Fāk khām script for Lao / Northern Thai language. 1) Astronomy & astrology (fols. 1-8) 2) Geography (fols. 9-17) 3) Seasons & time (fols. 18-23) 4) World of plants ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Lao, and Tai languages
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 109 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: 15406.a.33
Title:: Edict of Jiaqing 25 (1820)
Scope & Content:: An edict printed on two large yellow sheets with decorative dragon borders. One sheet is printed in Manchu, the other in Chinese. The edict is the last testament of the Jiaqing Emperor, dated Jiaqing 25, 7th month, 25th day (2 September 1820), the day of his death. It surveys the dying Emperor's...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Manchu
Date Range:: 1820
Extent:: 2 large sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: 15406.a.34
Title:: Edict of Guangxu 15 (1889)
Scope & Content:: A Manchu-Chinese bilingual edict issued by Emperor Guangxu announcing promotions and the reduction of punishments. Dated Guangxu 15 (1889), 2nd month, 3rd day. The shelf mark for this item appears in the Manchu Books in London Union Catalogue as 15406.a.34 (1-4).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Manchu
Date Range:: 1889
Extent:: 4 separate sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: 15406.a.66
Title:: Inscription of 1780 from the Huang Si (Yellow Temple), Beijing
Scope & Content:: A rubbing of a multilingual inscription, in Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and Chinese. From the Huang Si (Yellow Temple), Beijing. Dated gengzi (1780). The inscription includes image and text. The text, which is in a horizontal band at the top of the sheet, is a poem by Qianlong commemorating th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 1780
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: 15504a2/7
Title:: Photographs of Chengdu
Scope & Content:: Collection of 37 black and white photographs of the city of Chengdu, China.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: before 1926
Extent:: 37 black and white photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: 16000.b.8
Title:: Wamyō ruijushō 倭名類聚鈔 [倭名類聚抄]
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Minamoto no Shitagō 源順, 911-83. Imprint: Ōsaka, Shibukawa Seiemon, n.d. [c. Genroku period, 1688-1704 ?]. Kanki on fol. 31 of maki 20 reads: 書林／大坂心齋橋筋順慶町／澁川清右衛門. Following the kanki is an unnumbered folio inserted by the publisher Zeniya Sōshirō of Kyōto, with the following...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1688-1704]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 16001.b.8
Title:: Ehon hōkan 繪本寶鑑 [絵本宝鑑]
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Tachibana Muneshige 橘宗重 Illustrator: Hasegawa Tōun 長谷川等雲, fl. mid- to late-17th century. Imprint: Edo, Hiranoya Seizaburō; Kyōto, Kosaji Han'emon; Ōsaka, Kankidō Shigeyuki, n.d. (kōjo (endnote) dated Jōkyō 5, 1688). Kanki on fol. 37b of maki 6 reads: 東武平埜屋清三郎／中華小佐治半右衛門／攝...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1688
Extent:: 1 volume

Search