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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14606
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph), in macapat verse form. In Javanese language and script. This manuscript identified by Ben Arps.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 123 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14607
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph). Incomplete at beginning; leaves are not in order and the MS may contain two texts as there are at least two different hands. Beginning of Carita Yusup found in middle; preceding leaf (f. 67) is empty save for date: 23 Sebteber [September...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 123 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14608
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph). In Javanese language and script. In verse. This manuscript identified by Ben Arps.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 129 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14609
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph), in macapat verse form. In Javanese language and script. This manuscript identified by Ben Arps.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 116 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14610
Title:: Illustrated scenes from Arjunawiwāha
Scope & Content:: Scenes from Arjunawiwāha. Drawings on one side of the leaf and text in Balinese on the other side. The leaves appear to have been trimmed down from an earlier manuscript as parts of the text have been cropped. The MS was probably made for the tourist market, but the drawings are of good a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Balinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14662
Title:: Imjinnok 임진녹 [壬辰錄]
Scope & Content:: 'Record of the Year of the Black Dragon'. A version of the popular tale inspired by the Japanese invasions of Korea in 1592-1598. Date from colophon at end of text of volume 1: Chyegoe Kapshin Napwŏl isip-i-il p'il 졔괴갑신납월이십이일필.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Korean
Date Range:: 1884
Extent:: 2 volumes (66 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14821
Title:: Հմայիլ Hmayil, Prayer scroll
Scope & Content:: An Armenian scroll containing two extracts from Grigor Narekats'i's Book of Lamentation (Soliloquies XII and XLI), a prayer against the devil, and an extract from the Gospel of St Matthew (9:27-34, the healing of the two blind men). Some texts are missing from the beginning. Thirteen large mini...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item, 1 f

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14871
Title:: Kaikikan 瑰琦観
Scope & Content:: Album of paintings and poems by eminent Nanga and Shijō school artists and poets in the Kyōto/Ōsaka region including Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (1754-1799). One of the contributions bears the date Bunka 3 [1806].
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1800-1810
Extent:: 1 volume (35 leaves)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15020
Title:: Honch'ŏndo 渾天圖
Scope & Content:: Three items bound together and folded between covers. Comprises: Honch'ŏndo 渾天圖 - a star map; Haejwa chǒndo 海左全圖 - a map of the Korean peninsula originally created c.1820; Chosŏn p’aldo yungno suro ch’ŏngnip’yo 朝鮮八道陸路水路程里表 - a chart of distances by land and sea over the eight traditional p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Korean
Date Range:: 1820-1860
Extent:: 1 volume (containing 3 sheets)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 15030
Title:: Պու Քիթապն իսմի Թութի նամէ Pu K'it'apn Ismi T'ut'i Seventy Tales of a Parrot
Scope & Content:: An Armenian manuscript containing: f.1r-f.216v The Ṭūṭi-nāma of Ziya'u'd-din Nakhshabi, 52 tales written in Persian, based on the Śukasaptati, 'Seventy Tales of a Parrot', a collection of 70 Indian tales written in Sanskrit. The translator of the Armeno-Turkish version of the Ṭūṭi-nāma in this ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1800
Extent:: 1 item, 217 ff

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