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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16058
Title:: Quran
Scope & Content:: Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Daghistan. The colophon on f. 546r dated Rabiulawal 1237 (November/December 1821), which mentions the name Musa bin Muhammad al-R... al-Jakki al-Hakari and the masjid al-Jakki al-Hakari bi-Filibin, may be a fraudulent modern addition. Contents: f. 1r: a few lin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1821
Extent:: 547 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16100
Title:: Buddhist texts and 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย, with illustrations from The Ten Birth Tales ทสชาติ
Scope & Content:: Extracts from Abhidhamma, Vinayapitaka, Suttantapitaka. Phra Malai. Illustrations: 17 pages with finest illustrations from the Ten birth tales and from the legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. With two additional illustrations, one showing a monk's ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 55 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16101
Title:: Buddhist texts and Phra Malai พระมาลัย, with illustrations of The Ten Birth Tales ทสชาติ
Scope & Content:: Extracts from Abhidhamma. Phra Malai. Extracts from Vinayapitaka and Suttantapitaka. Sahassanaya. Illustrations: 19 folios with illustrations from the legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. The illustrations represent celestial beings (devata), and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 95 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16114
Title:: Manuscript covers
Scope & Content:: Two wooden covers for a palm leaf manuscript (bai lān) from the Lao or Northern Thai (Lanna) manuscript tradition, decorated with raised lacquer and gilded floral ornaments, inlaid with mirror glass.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 2 covers

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16555
Title:: Title indicator
Scope & Content:: Wooden title indicator for palm leaf manuscript (bai lān), with gold leaf, from Northern Thailand (Lānnā).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali
Date Range:: 1800-1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16761
Title:: [Royal entertainments]
Scope & Content:: Illustrations of court entertainments with captions. Contains 17 scenes in water colour, enclosed in yellow panels, with short descriptions in Burmese below. (1) Capturing a white elephant (ff. 1-2) (2) Camping cooking (ff. 3) (3) A royal procession (ff. 4- 6) (4) Ceremonial ploughing (ff. 7...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume; 40 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16915
Title:: Quran
Scope & Content:: Qur’ān, in Arabic, a fine illuminated copy from Aceh. Contents: f.1v, a prayer for the prophet and other notables, and a mnemonic poem (nazam) made up of the first words of each juz’; ff.2v-255r, text of the Qur’an; f.255v, a prayer on completion of the Qur’an. Text frames are ruled lines of r...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 255 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16924
Title:: West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt with Carrying Case
Scope & Content:: Richly illuminated West African copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of devotional prayers to the Prophet Muhammad written by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). Probably copied in Nigeria. Features full page illuminations (ff. 1v 2r 31v, 87v, 143v, 180v) and half-page i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 214 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16979
Title:: Album of Japanese kimono designs
Scope & Content:: 48 hand-painted paper cut-outs of kimono designs. Some appear to be for use with Japanese paper dolls or 'Anesama ningyō' 姉様人形. Inscription on inside of back cover reads: Dai-nise Senjusai Masaharu 第二世千寿齋雅春.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1900-1925
Extent:: 1 volume (25 folios)

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