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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3781
Title:: Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This item comprises a single parchment leaf from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the tim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-1340
Extent:: 1 parchment leaf, kept in an album.

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3884
Title:: Melford Hall Manuscript: Poems by John Donne with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, and Thomas Weelkes
Scope & Content:: Known as the ‘Melford Hall Manuscript’ this volume contains 145 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572 – 1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, Thomas Weelkes and several unattributed works copied...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620-1759
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5471
Title:: Formula of absolution, Psalm 119, Song of Songs, ʾAnqaṣa bǝrhān, Ṣalot za-ʾǝgzǝʾtena Māryām ba-Dabra Golgotā.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-3r. Formula of absolution (ፍትሐት፡) (Fetḥat za-wald ) ff. 4r-14r. Psalms of David, Psalmus. ff. 14v-26v. Song of Songs. Divided into five sections ff. 26v-38v ውዳሴ፡ ማርያም (ʾAnqaṣa berhān ) Incipit (): f. 26 ቅድስት፡ ወብፅዕት፡ ስብሕት፡ ወቡርክት፡ ወልዕልት፡ አንቀጸ፡ ብርሃን፡ መዓር...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 1600-1753
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7629
Title:: አርጋኖነ ማርያም, ʾArgānona Māryām.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 8r-191r. ʾArgānona Māryām. ff. 192v-194r. Confessio Claudii. f. 8r. Ornament.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 1600-1753
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 830
Title:: Two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:: A volume containing two Zoroastrian works: (1) Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a prose version in Persian of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards (ff. 1v-51r);   (2) Ṣad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+156

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1619
Title:: Parsi marriage ceremony
Scope & Content:: Nikāḥ bastan bi-ravish-i mubidān-i Hindūstān ( نکاح بستن بروش مبدان هندوستان), the Parsi marriage ceremony in Persian, copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼus (f. 6v) and given by Dastūr Kāʼus to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) who was Governor of Bombay from 1795 until his death in 1811. Dastūr Kā’us...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+10

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2446
Title:: Collection of texts in Arabic and Javanese
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts in Arabic and Javanese. The Arabic texts have been catalogued in Loth, 1877 (Loth 1047), and see child records for further details. The contents are also described in Ricklefs & Voorhoeve (1977: 56) as follows: Ff. 1-124: Arabic texts with interlinear Javanes...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2448
Title:: Javanese and Arabic texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts in Arabic and Javanese. The Arabic texts have been catalogued in Loth, 1877 (Loth 1048), and see child records for further details. The contents are also described in Ricklefs & Voorhoeve (1977: 57) as follows: A: ff. 1-24. Arabic text, with marginal annotat...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item; 126 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2506
Title:: Two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:: A volume containing two separate Zoroastrian works bound together Contents: (1) Kitāb-i shāyist va nāshāyist (کتاب شایست و ناشایست), a prose work divided into 100 sections here called Ṣad dar nas̱r (صد در نثر) (ff. 1v-46v);  (2) Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+78+iii+loose binding fragments. There are five blank leaves numbered ff. 46a-e between ff. 45 and 46

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2617
Title:: [Various texts in Javanese and Arabic]
Scope & Content:: [Various texts in Javanese and Arabic] A: ff. 1v-10v. Various prayers, in Javanese and Arabic with Javanese titles. B: ff. 11v-69v. Arabic text on the qualities and use of stones and jewels, with an interlinear version in Javanese. The Arabic text and Javanese translation have many errors. Fo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: Late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:: 111 folios

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