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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12273
Title:: Sĕrat Rama
Scope & Content:: Sĕrat Rama, incomplete. The leaves have Javanese numerals up to 169, but there are some gaps suggesting the leaves are out of order and some are missing. In Javanese language and script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 161 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12274
Title:: Arjunawiwāha Kakawin
Scope & Content:: Arjunawiwāha Kakawin In Old Javanese language and Balinese script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Old Javanese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12275
Title:: Raden (Ardi) Kusuma romance
Scope & Content:: Raden (Ardi) Kusuma romance. In Javanese language and script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 86 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12276
Title:: Rāmāyana Kakawin
Scope & Content:: Rāmāyana Kakawin, sarga 24. In Old Javanese language and Balinese script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Old Javanese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 24 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12277
Title:: Kutāra Mānawa
Scope & Content:: Kutāra Mānawa, law book. Inscribed on the inside cover: 'Cuntara Manawa Sastra, a paraphrase of the Institutes of Menu, in the Kawi or ancient Javanese language. Presented to J. Crawfurd, Esq., by the Rajah of Blilling [Buleleng, in Bali], 1814.' According to Jonker, 1885, pp. 32 et seqq., t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 item; 63 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12278
Title:: Rāmāyana
Scope & Content:: Rāmāyana. Annotated: 'Ramayana, according to the Javanese paraphrase, in the Kawi or ancient character. This MS was given to J. Crawfurd by the Rajah of Blilling [Buleleng], in the island of Bali'. The text starts with canto 19: Tatkālanyān inājñan sahana-hana nika ng rākṣasomətva ri ng pran...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Old Javanese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 27 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12375
Title:
Scope & Content:: Minhāj at-Tālibīn by Abú Zakariya Yahya an-Nawawi in Arabic; a treatise on Islamic law. Many marginal annotations and paratexts in a much smaller hand. The colophon on f. 196r is dated Jumadilawal 1161 (April 1748), and the scribe named as Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Boni al-Malari (of Bone and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 209 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12524
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; Gilbert Banester, Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of The Legend of Good Women, a Middle English dream vision by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains a copy of The Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda, a Middle English verse adaptation of the story from Bocaccio's Decame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12531/1
Title:: Leaves from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:: Contents and decoration: f. 1: Space left for Prologue with a full historiated border . In the upper section are the heraldic emblems of the Infante don Fernando, with the arms of the Portuguese royal family suspended from the gold architectural frame against a green ground. On either side are ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1530-1534
Extent:: A part of Add MS 12531: folios 1; 2; 3; 4 mounted separately and kept in a box together.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12531/2
Title:: Leaves from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:: Contents and decoration: f. 5:r Genealogical tree of the Kings of Navarre and Aragon, with five tiers or generations: 1st or lowest tier: Garcia Sanchez II de Pamplona (reigned 994-1000/04) son of Sancho Garces II (970-994), seated on his throne holding a sword, with his queen, 'Doña Costanci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1530-1534
Extent:: A part of Add MS 12531: folios 5, 5*, 6, 7 mounted separately and kept in a box together.

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