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511. Or 5427

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5427
Title:
Patent of Kangxi 61 (1722) [Elhe taifin-i ninju emuci aniya omšon biyai orin. Abkai hesei g'aoming] [ᡝᠯᡥᡝ ᡨᠠᠢᠢᡶᡞᠨ ᡞ ᠨᡞᠨᠵᡠ ᡝᠮᡠᠴᡞ ᠠᠨᡞᠶᠠ ᠣᠮᡧᠣᠨ ᠪᡞᠶᠠᡞ ᠣᠷᠢᠨ᠃ ᠠᠪᡣᠠᡞ ᡥᡝᠰᡝᡞ ᡬᠠᠣᠮᡞᡢ] [Kangxi liu shi yi nian feng tian gao ming] [康熙六十一年奉天誥命]
Scope & Content:
Bilingual Manchu-Chinese patent conferring the title Horon be tucibuhe giyanggiyūn (ᡥᠣᠷᠣᠨ ᠪᡝ ᡨᡠᠴᡞᠪᡠᡥᡝ ᡤᡞᠶᡢᡤᡞᠶᡡᠨ) / Xuan wu jiang jun (宣武將軍) upon Qiu Lianhui (仇連會). His wife, He (和), becomes Gingguji hehe (ᡤᡞᡢᡤᡠᠵᡞ ᡥᡝᡥᡝ) / Gong ren (恭人). Dated Kangxi 61st year, 11th month, 20th day 康熙六十一年十一月二十日 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Manchu
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 scroll

512. Or 5634

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5634
Title:
Collection of thirteen Druze texts.
Scope & Content:
Collection of thirteen Druze texts.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 87

513. Or 5757

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5757
Title:
ဧကာဒသမရှင်ပိဏ္ဍောလတန်ခိုးပြဟန်အစပုပ္ပါရုံကျောင်းနှိုက်ဝါဆိုဟန်အဆုံး
Scope & Content:
Coloured drawings of account of Buddha''s life containing twenty scenes including the performing of miracles and spending the rainy season or Buddhist Lent at various places.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
70 folds

514. Or 6557

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6557
Title:
ʻIlm al-Raml
Scope & Content:
This work was gifted (?) to the British Museum Library by a Muhammad Shami on October 10th 1903 and catalogued in 1904. According to a slip of paper pasted on blank recto of first folio "in handwriting of donor", this work is a "book on Reml (Ar. ʻIlm al-Raml, sand divination) and magic and some ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1214-1305
Extent:
124 folios

515. Or 6575

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6575
Title:
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:
A finely copied and illuminated West African edition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular prayer book by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). The work is illuminated by illuminations on folios 2v, 65v, 77r, 99v, 128r and 147r, many of them consisting of a square of geometric design...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
177 ff

516. Or 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6576
Title:
Kitāb al-Balagh al-Minan كتاب البلغ المنى
Scope & Content:
An instruction book for the preparation of amulets, talismans and other supernatural protective devices which the copyist calls kitāb al-balagh al-minan, roughly translated "The Book of Attaining Destiny". Folios 1-4 concern the methods of preparation, while the rest of the work consists of 4x4 n...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
62 ff

517. Or 6630

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6630
Title:
Extracts from the Tipiṭaka and 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย
Scope & Content:
Fols. 1-9: Extracts from the Tipiṭaka Fols. 10-88: Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. Colophon on fol. 88 in Thai script giving date B.E. 2418: 'หนังสือพระมาไลเลมนี ข้าพเจ้ามีสัทาชรางไว้ในพระพุทสาษน้า สำเรดแล้วในปีมะโรงสำเรชีศก พระพุทศักราชลวงแล...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali and Thai
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
92 folios

518. Or 6702

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6702
Title:
御筆十全記 Yu bi shi quan ji [Qianlong's Ten Victories]
Scope & Content:
Qianlong's Ten Victories: chronicle of ten successful campaigns conducted by the Emperor in 1790. Copy made by Wu Shenglan （吳省蘭）.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:

1 volume

519. Or 6801

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6801
Title:
Mercurius the General, Miscellany in honour of St Mercurius (with Festival lessons)
Scope & Content:
a) St Mercurius’ martyrdom under Emperor Decius (249-251 AD); b) Miracle of St Mercurius and Julian the Emperor; c) Lessons for the Feast of St Mercurius. Scribe: Aurillios Biktor Illustrations: f. 1v portrait of St Mercurius on horseback menacing the Emperor Julian; f. 2v – text with colourf...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic
Date Range:
996-1004
Extent:
32 folios

520. Or 6953

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6953
Title:
Collection of Arabic works of West African provenance
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fourteen separate works in Arabic from West Africa. Among them are four works on Maliki law, one on tawḥīd, two works on Arabic grammar, two poems, three works on hadith and one on Qādirī Sufism. The last work is the Rawḍ al-Jinān composed by the Wazīr of Sokoto, Gidado dan L...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
294 ff

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