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1991. Or 9232

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9232
Title:
[Two works in Kashgari Turkic]
Scope & Content:
Two texts in the Turkic dialect of the city of Kashgar: 2r-58v : Manāqib-i Yūsuf Qādir Khān, a narrative poem on the exploits of Yūsuf Qādir Khān, a 5th century AH (11th century CE) ruler of Kashghar. The text contains a partial account of the conversion of the populace of Kashgar to Islam. Its...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
18th century - 19th century
Extent:
Codex, 105 ff

1992. Or 9335

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9335
Title:
(1) Mahavamsa (2) Rasavahini
Scope & Content:
(1) Chronicle of Sri Lanka including a history of the Buddhist Monastic community, with its supplement the Uttam-vamsa. (2) Buddhist tales.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
18-19th century
Extent:
Palm leaf pothi format. In Sinhalese script.

1993. Or 9660

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9660
Title:
Taḏkirat al-jinān - تذدرت الجنان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains notices of Sufi saints of Eastern Turkistan in Kashgari Turkic. The work is also known as Taḏkirat al-‘Azīzān and Taḏkira-’i Khwājagān. The original text was composed by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāsgharī for Raḥīma Āghājiliq in 1182 AH (1768-69 CE). It contains the biographies of Isha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

1 text, 184 ff

1994. Or 9661

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9661
Title:
[Tarjuma-’i Qābūsnāma] - [ترجمۀ قابوسنامه]
Scope & Content:
A Chaghatay translation of Qābūsnāma, the Persian treatise on ethics and government, completed in 475/1082, by Kay-Kā’ūs ibn Vashmgīr. This copy lacks both the beginning and the end. The text opens with the list of 44 chapters. The text was copied at Kashghar, likely in the 18th century CE.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

1995. Or 9662

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9662
Title:
[Tazkirat al-jinān] - تذكرت الجنان
Scope & Content:
Notices of Sufi saints from East Turkestan. Also included are a sermon for ‘Īd al-Aḍḥà, and supplicatory prayers. This manuscript was copied in Yarkand in 1245 AH (1829-30 CE).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1245
Extent:
1 text, 144 ff

1996. Or 9663

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9663
Title:
Majmu''a - مجموعه
Scope & Content:
A collection of seven fiction and non-fiction pieces, including: (I) ff 1v-22r : Tazkirat-i Ḥażrat-i Imām Muḥammad Ghazālī, a popular account of the great theologian, mystic and jurist Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī; (II) ff 22v-27r : Ḥikāya-’i manẓūma, a popular account of the Prophet Muḥammad صلعم, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1326
Extent:
Codex, 109 ff

1997. Or 9798

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9798
Title:
Sawasew, poems, calendar for the movable feasts and Amharic explanation of the Creed.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r- 39r. Ethiopic-Amharic Vocabulary. ff. 36v-39r. Poem. ff. 39v- 49r. Symbolic explanation of the character of the Ethiopic alphabet and Mazgaba dersan, a collection of 90 qene. ff. 49r-50r. Calculation. ff. 50r-56v. Calendar of the movable feasts. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1998. Or 9809

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9809
Title:
Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:
Carita Yusup. In verse. In Javanese language and script.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

123 folios

1999. Or 11175

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11175
Title:
甘肅地理攷. Gansu di li kao. [A study of the geography of Gansu Province].
Scope & Content:
A study of the geography of Gansu province by Song Zhizhang 宋之章.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
19th c.
Extent:

1 volume (11 folios).

2000. Or 11356

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11356
Title:
Okkyesa 玉溪社
Scope & Content:
Titile from title slip on front cover. Title slip reads: 玉溪社 辛亥再修 甲子重修 戊寅改修. Title on fol.1: Okkyesa chang 玉溪社藏 辛亥曾畫. Korean album of poetry and landscape paintings of Mt Inwang by members of a literati society called the Okkyesa (Jade Stream Club). The album contains 11 illustrations by Im ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1791-1818
Extent:

1 volume

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