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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1029/1/99
Title:: Prince Madrais Alibasa Manuscript No. 48D
Scope & Content:: The manuscript No.48D is written in a notebook with blue cover. The size is 21 x 16.5 cm. The condition of paper is brittle and yellowing. The writing is still readable. In this manuscript, Prince Madrais explains about his life story. One day, there were magical forces persuading him to be thei...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sundanese
Date Range:: 1870-1938
Extent:: 68 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1029/1/123
Title:: Prince Madrais Alibasa Manuscript No. 54C
Scope & Content:: The manuscript No.54C is written in a notebook with blue cover. The size is 21 x 16.5 cm. The condition of paper is brittle, torn and yellowing. The ink penetrates to the reverse side, but the writing is still readable. In this manuscript, Prince Madrais explains his reflection about the life pr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sundanese
Date Range:: 1870-1938
Extent:: 68 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1034/1/4/65
Title:: ༄༅༎སྣང་སྟོང་ཟུང་འཇུག་གི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམ་པའི་ཀུན་འཁོར་བཞུགས་སོ༎
Scope & Content:: Authored by a renown Aga monastery scholar Zharbaev Galsan Danzin (tib. Bskal bzang Bstan 'dzin) a.k.a Kalpabhadra Shasadhara, the abbot of Kalachakra department of Aga monastery. Extent and format of original material: 1r-4r. Physical characteristics: Xylograph, Russian paper: 26,6 x 8,8 inne...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 20th century
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1034/2/1/47
Title:: ༄༅།།རིགས་ལམ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
Scope & Content:: "A Magic Key to the Science of Logic" by Gung thang 03 Dkon mchog Bstan pa'i Sgron me (1762 - 1823). Extent and format of original material: 1r-11r. Physical characteristics: Xylograph, Russian paper: 54 x 9 cm; inner frame 47,5 x 6,7 cm, black ink, 6 lines per page. Volume and issue number: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 19th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1056/12/5
Title:: மந்திர தந்திர நூல் [17th century-18th century]
Scope & Content:: This material is a palm-leaf manuscript from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The title is not specified. This is a magic and tantra work, related to Siddhas. The book includes descriptions and instructions on mesmerism (வசியம் செய்தல்). Extent and format of original material: Palm-leaf manuscript, 088 leave...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 88 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1056/12/20
Title:: சூனியம் [19th century]
Scope & Content:: This material is a Tamil palm-leaf manuscript from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is written in prose using Tamil font of the 19th century. This manuscript, related to black magic, is considered unorthodox folk Hindu practices. Extent and format of original material: Palm-leaf manuscript, 092 leaves. P...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 92 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1056/14/53
Title:: மாந்திரீக நூல் [16th century-20th century]
Scope & Content:: This palm-leaf manuscript is a sorcery/ thaumaturgy work from Nallur, Sri Lanka. It is written in both Tamil and Grantha scripts. On the basis of linguistic analysis, it could be dated to early or before 18th century. The work details the art of exercising and evoking paranormal powers by means ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit and Tamil
Date Range:: 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 692 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1068/1/1
Title:: Imala Native Court
Scope & Content:: The record comprises of proceedings of the Civil cases heard by the local court. Extent: 1 manuscript containing 3 folders and 625 images. Author(s)/Creator(s): Customary Courts, Western Region of Nigeria during the Colonial years (1900 – 1960s). Scribe(s): Customary Courts, Western Region of...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1920
Extent:: 625 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1068/1/2
Title:: Otta Native Court
Scope & Content:: The record comprises of proceedings of the Criminal cases heard by the local court. Extent: 1 manuscript containing 3 folders and 630 images. Author(s)/Creator(s): Customary Courts, Western Region of Nigeria during the Colonial years (1900 – 1960s). Scribe(s): Customary Courts, Western Region...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921
Extent:: 630 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1068/1/3
Title:: Ake Native Court
Scope & Content:: The record comprises of proceedings of the Civil cases heard by the local court. Extent: 1 manuscript containing 3 folders and 653 images. Author(s)/Creator(s): Customary Courts, Western Region of Nigeria during the Colonial years (1900 – 1960s). Scribe(s): Customary Courts, Western Region of...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1920
Extent:: 593 TIFF images

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