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Place Java, Indonesia Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5253

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Add MS 5253
Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

2. Add MS 14851

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Add MS 14851
Title:
Anbiya
Scope & Content:
Anbiya. 'History of all the prophets from the Creation including the history of the island of Java’. The beginning has a date, but the year is omitted. Begins with Allah Tangala. Approximately the first 200 ff. concern the angels, Nabi Yusup, the Prophet Muhammad, etc. Thereafter the story move...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese
Date Range:
1818
Extent:
1 item; 308 folios

3. Mss Eur E378

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Mss Eur E378
Title:
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles papers.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in Malay, Javanese and English, mainly between Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, as Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, and local rulers, concerning the return of Java to the Dutch.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
30 folios