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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13822
Title:: Yuriwaka Daijin ゆりわか大臣 [由利若大臣]
Scope & Content:: 'The story of Minister Yuriwaka'. A lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Kōwakamai (recitative dance) also known as 'Yuriwaka Daijin monogatari 百合若大臣物語'. Of unknown authorship but composed during the late Muromachi Period (c.1500-1573). Title on title slips: scroll 1: ゆりわか大臣　上, scroll 2: 由利若...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1640-1680
Extent:: 3 scrolls

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13839
Title:: Tengu no dairi 天狗の内裏
Scope & Content:: ‘The Palace of the Tengu’. Title on title slip: 天狗の内裏. 上 (下）. An otogizoshi of unknown authorship of the Hōganmono ('Magistrate' i.e. Yoshitsune) genre recounting an episode from the life of the tragic hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経, younger brother of Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝. Summary...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1560-1600
Extent:: 2 scrolls

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13915
Title:: Flora and fauna
Scope & Content:: Flora, fauna, spirit, etc. Illustrations include spirit, plants, a Buddhist monastery, zodiac figures, an elephant goring a tiger.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 24 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13916
Title:: Treatise on elephants
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is about elephants and their diseases: a treatise on elephants.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 23 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13926
Title:: Myōhō rengekyō gohyaku deshi jukihon daihachi 妙法蓮華経五百弟子受記品第八
Scope & Content:: Title from beginning of text. Cover title: Gohyakuhon 五百品. Chapter 8 of the Lotus Sutra (Sanskrit. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra). An elaborately decorated manuscript of Chapter Eight of the Lotus Sutra (Skt. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra) the “Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples”, b...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1636
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13937
Title:: Aḍhāīdvīpa
Scope & Content:: Jain diagram of the Universe inhabited by human being with text in Sanskrit and Gujarati.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th C
Extent:: Painting on cloth. 90x90 cm.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13946
Title:: Pancaraksa
Scope & Content:: The Five Protections: hymns to five Buddhist female deities invoked for protection against diseases, dangerous animals and other threats to human life. Copied in Nepal Samvat 797 (1676-1677) in Kathmandu. Illustrated: 10 miniatures of the goddesses and their Dhyani -Buddhas and one full page illu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1676-1677 AD
Extent:: 115 folios, black paper in pothi format (11.5 x 39.5 cm); 5 lines between ruled margins. Written with golden ink in Ranjana script.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13993
Title:: Breviary of King Lewon II/III of Cilician Armenia
Scope & Content:: An Armenian manuscript containing: ff.2r-189r Breviary ff.189r-190v Principal colophon Major decorations: f.1v St Nersēs the Graceful, Catholicos of Armenia (1166-1173) f.9v King Lewon II/III of Cilician Armenia Headpieces on ff.2r, 10r, 19v, 94v, 178v. Portrait of a saint in the outer ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian
Date Range:: 1274?
Extent:: 1 item, 190 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14023
Title:: A text on the twelve months of the year
Scope & Content:: A text in Balinese on the twelve months of the year, with illustrations of the guardian deity and guardian animal of each month. Copied and illustrated by Ida Bagus Rai Buda of Gria Gunung Sari, Peliatan, Bali, ca.1940.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Balinese
Date Range:: 1940
Extent:: 13 folios

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