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Place Cochin-China, Asia Level [40] File

1. Add MS 16283

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Add MS 16283
Title:
'An Nam Chii Lược' (Sketches of Annam by Lê Tắc)
Scope & Content:
The oldest known example of a history written in Hán (classical Chinese) by a private individual as distinct from official history. Lê Tắc, a former Vietnamese official from Nghệ An, wrote this piece in China after he went there with the Mongol invaders in 1285.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

7 volumes

2. Add MS 29214

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Add MS 29214
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1. NARRATIVE of a voyage to Cochin China in. 1778, by Charles Chapman. [Printed in the Asiatic Annual Register for 1801. Miscellaneous tracts, p. 62.] f. 1. With plan of his route by Lieut. J. S. Ewart, 1782, f. 89. 2. "Captain [Michael] Symes's narrative of his; Embassy to Ava," in 1795. [Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1778-1795
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 35300

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Add MS 35300
Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. I. Drawings by William Alexander and Samuel Daniell
Scope & Content:
37 watercolour drawings, made for the most part in 1792-3 on Lord Macartney's embassy to China (see also Add MS 33931), the rest on a mission with Sir John Barrow in southern Africa in 1801-2. Many of them have been engraved, either for Sir John Barrow's Voyage to Cochinchina (1806, containing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792-1802
Extent:

1 volume (37 folios)

4. Add MS 38076 D

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Add MS 38076 D
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Scope & Content:
D. 1-108. Asia, viz. 1, 2, Arabia; 3, 4, Persia; 5, 6, Maldive and Laccadive Islands; 7-15 Ceylon; 16-44, India; 45-50, Burma; 51-53, Anam; 54-56, Lower Siam; 57-60, Malacca Straits; 61-64, Sunda Straits; 65-70, Sumatra; 71-76, Java ; 77-80, Borneo; 81-91, Philippine Islands; 92-102, Islands of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 39105

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Add MS 39105
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Scope & Content:
Vol. CLXXV (ff. 367). Feb.- Apr. 1863. Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1846-1881. includes: ff. 1, 155, 197 William Perry, Consul-General Venice; Knight 1872: Letters to Sir A. H. Layard: 1861-1866. f. 3, 178 Christian Anthony Rassam, Vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Feb 1863-Apr 1863
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 42081

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Add MS 42081
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Scope & Content:
HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. XV (ff. 77). Miscellaneous papers of the Oxenden, Hamilton and Greville families; temp. Henry VIII [1509]- 1804. Divided into the following sections:-(1) Manorial documents relating to Underdowne manor in Herne, co. Kent, temp. Henry VIII (f. 1), Fleggs Court a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1509-1804
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 1448 A

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Sloane MS 1448 A
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1448 A Vellum, in 4to., ff. 30, XVII Century; bound with Nos. 901, 1803. 1. Copies of capital letters, taken apparently from different MSS. ff. 3-29. Prefixed is a short note of the manners, etc. of the Cochin Chinois extracted from the History of Christopher Borri. 2. Pars, ut videtu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item