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2001. Or 11515

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11515
Title:
Kosindo 高臣圖
Scope & Content:
Portraits of 144 Chinese historical and legendary figures - chiefly emperors, ministers, military men and literary figures but also including Buddha and Laozi. The illustrations are head and shoulder representations, apart from those of Buddha and Laoziare Each portrait has an biographical text i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1800-1900
Extent:
2 volumes rebound in 1 (75 folios)

2002. Or 11517

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11517
Title:
Illustrated poetry album. [歐陽保極等詩畫冊]. [Ou yang bao ji deng shi hua ce].
Scope & Content:
Concertina album with wooden covers containing poetry and landscape paintings. Each folio contains poetry in vertical lines in black ink on paper on the recto side, and a coloured illustration on silk on the verso side for a total of 8 illustrations. Each folio is framed in silk.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1864
Extent:

1 volume (9 folios).

2003. Or 11518

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11518
Title:
Chido chŏn 地圖全
Scope & Content:
Album containing maps of the traditional Eight Provinces of Korea: 1) Kyŏnggido / Chungchŏngdo 忠淸道; 2) Chŏllado 全羅道; 3) Kyŏngsangdo 慶尙道; 4) P’yŏngando平安道; 5) South Hamgyong 咸鏡南道; 6) North Hamgyong 咸鏡北道; 7) Hwanghaedo 黃海道; 8) Kangwŏndo 江原道. A preface and scale [approx. 1: 400,000] are included o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1800-1850
Extent:
1 volume containing 8 sheet maps

2004. Or 11530

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11530
Title:
Taehan chǒnjido
Scope & Content:
Map of the Korean peninsula. Place names and legends in Chinese characters with transcriptions in Hangŭl. Some names have also have added transliterations into the Latin alphabet.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1897-1900
Extent:
1 sheet

2005. Or 11624

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11624
Title:
Taedong yŏjido 大東輿地圖. 1-22
Scope & Content:
Manuscript copy of the set of 22 maps of Korea compiled by Kosanja [i.e. Kim Chŏng-ho 金正浩 (d 1866?)] and first published in 1861 with a revised edition in 1864. First folio of first map dated: 古山子校刋 當守元年甲子 [=1864]. Each map has a list of the places contained within it written on the front cove...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Korean
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
22 sheets

2006. Or 11691

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11691
Title:
福次咸詩草 Fu Cixian shi cao.
Scope & Content:
Poetry by Fu Cixian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

2007. Or 12127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12127
Title:
[Signature of Shaykh Shibli]
Scope & Content:
A brief note in Arabic by Shaykh Shibli of the Druze, as well as his signature in Latin script, followed by an explanation of the text and its context. The Arabic text appears to read: يمكن بينى وبينك اعهد مثل براهيمThe English text below explains that this was written during an interview at al-A...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 text, 2 ff

2008. Or 12167

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12167
Title:
Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:
Drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Used as a manual for fortune telling and divination....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1750-1850
Extent:
44 folios

2009. Or 12174

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12174
Title:
Hashidate no honji 橋立の本地
Scope & Content:
'The True Form of Hashidate'. Also known as 'Bontenkoku 梵天国'. An illustrated otogizōshi story of unknown authorship composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573), it recounts the origins of the Nariaiji 成相寺 Temple at Amanohashidate. Title on title slip: 橋たてのほん地 一. Volume 1 of 2 only. The ma...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1600-1640
Extent:
1 scroll

2010. Or 12201

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12201
Title:
[Text fragment]
Scope & Content:
A fragment of coarse Chinese paper, used as a wrapping for Chinese and Uighur manuscript fragments from Dunhuang. It contains ten lines of (non-mediaeval) text in Turkic with various orthographic idiosyncrasies recording financial transactions, and is signed by ‘Āsim (sic) Ākhūn and Mollā Sulṭān...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

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