A collection of typewritten and handwritten/hand-drawn materials relating to Mr. Ian MacPherson's trip to western Crimea in 1927. ff. 1-34, f. 47 : A collection of rubbings of tamghalar or stone inscriptions from various locations in Yevpatoria (Kezlev in Crimean Tatar). The rubbings are number...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian, and Turkish, Ottoman
A Tārā maṇḍala printed as a protective charm. Probably produced from a woodblock at Thengpoche Monastery, N.E. Nepal before 1970. Published in Nik Douglas: Tibetan Tantric Charms and Amulets: 230 Examples Reproduced from Original Woodblocks, New York, 1978.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900-1970
Extent:
Single leaf woodblock print, 64.3 x 49.3 cm. On Nepalese Daphne paper.
'Illustrations of Noh Masks'. Contains forty-five hand-coloured illustrations of masks for characters from Noh plays. Copied by Kensai 顕斎. Dated Tenpō 4 [1833]. Accompanied by a separate document (dated 1956) with descriptions for the various masks based on a reference work by Sanari Kentarō 佐成...
Palm leaf prescription made for Alfred Sercombe Griffin
Scope & Content:
Framed single palm leaf containing a medical prescription made for Alfred Sercombe Griffin (1878-1943) in Maymyo, Shan States, Burma, 1907. Written in mixed Burmese, Shan and Pali with Burmese script.
The manuscript comprises eleven illustrations of foodofferings for Gosekku 五節句, the five annual imperial court ceremonies, and twenty-twoillustrations of different decorations for room divider screens. Each illustration is aqccompanied by a short explanatory text. The five festivals are: Jinjit...
An untitled album of textile designs containing 35 water-colour illustrations depictingdifferent flower patterns. One design covers two pages and depicts phoenixesand flowers, sprinkled in gold. Hand-written captions in Japanese. The name Echigoya Magobē 越後屋孫兵衛 is written on theinside of the ...
Batak pustaha, treebark book folded concertina-style, with two wooden covers, and two plaited bamboo clasps. Damaged along one length. Containing on one side a text on divination using the cock oracle, and on the other, a prescription for destructive magic. A note attached to the upper boar...
'Short commentary according to the simple sense' (from folio 1a). Original commentary on the Torah (Pentateuch) by Rabbi (Hakham) Ezra Ruben Dangoor of Baghdad, incorporating interpretations from classical and modern Jewish commentators. Notebook 1: folios 1 - 14; on Genesis 1:1 - 2:9 (Pericop...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1926-1930
Extent:
11 notebooks covering the biblical book of Genesis
'Short commentary according to the simple sense' (from ʿAdi zahav on Genesis, folio 1a). Original commentary on the Torah (Pentateuch) by Rabbi (Hakham) Ezra Ruben Dangoor of Baghdad, incorporating interpretations from classical and modern Jewish commentators. Notebook 12: folios 1 – 17; on Ex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1926-1930
Extent:
5 Notebooks, numbers 12 – 16, covering the biblical book of Exodus. (Continued from notebooks 1 – 11, covering Genesis)
10 Notebooks, numbers 17 – 26, covering the biblical books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. (Continued from notebooks 1 – 11 & 12 – 16, covering Genesis and Exodus, respectively) 'Short commentary according to the simple sense' (from ʿAdi zahav on Genesis, folio 1a). Original commen...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1926-1930
Extent:
10 Notebooks, numbers 17 – 26, covering the biblical books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. (Continued from notebooks 1 – 11 & 12 – 16, covering Genesis and Exodus, respectively)