Gokaikō Yokohama gaikokujin jūtaku no zu 御開港横濱外国人住宅ノ圖
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Topographical view of the foreign settlement in Yokohama following the opening of the treaty ports in 1859, showing individual plots occupied by named British, American Dutch and Portuguese businesses and households. Undated but between 1861 when the cathedral was built and 1866 when the origi...
Japanese folding album containing 24 colour paintings. 12 illustrations represent the months of the year with poems on the theme of birds by Fujiwara Teika in the calligraphy of nobles and court officials. The calligrapher's name and/or title is given on a paper slip alongside each painting. Sh...
Rubbing of a stone inscription found in the eastern wall of Htat Cwamceli, two miles west of Kengtung on the way to Taunggyi, Shan State in Burma. At the top of the inscription is a Zata / Duang chata circle flanked by two flower ornaments. The inscription in Tai Khuen script contains informatio...
Pustaha Folding tree-bark book in Batak language. Contains tabas (mantras) and poda (instructions), among others to prepare tawar (magical preparation to neutralise poison and general attacks of your enemies). Toba script with Southern Ta and Northern Ma, Northern Wa, ancient Na. Identificatio...
Pustaha Folding tree-bark book, on tawar, magical preparation to neutralise poison and general attacks of your enemy, in Batak language in Toba script, with Northern Ta, Northern Wa. Identification by U. Kozok, 1.3.2019
Pustaha Folding tree-bark book, on divination, in Batak language in Toba script, with both Southern Ta and Northern Ta (even on the same page). May be written by two different persons. Identification by U. Kozok, 1.3.2019
Batak pustaha, folding tree-bark book, on tawar, magical preparation to neutralise poison and general attacks of your enemy, in Batak language in Toba script, with Northern Ta, Northern Wa. Identification by U. Kozok, 1.3.2019 [This MS was originally assumed to be part of Or 16997 but is of dif...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, with some notes in Persian on flyleaf. The folio (f. 441) containing the last two chapters of the Qur'an (S. al-Falaq and S. al-Nas) is a later replacement for the lost original. From Malakand, North-West Frontier province (present-day Pakistan), 19th c. In between the fo...
