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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16801
Title:: Usada
Scope & Content:: Usada, medical texts in Balinese. A: ff. 1-19. Numbered in Balinese 2-20. The first leaf is missing and ff. 1-3 are badly damaged. B: ff. 20-62. Numbered in Balinese 1-43. Includes illustrations on ff. 53r-v, 54r-v, 55r-v, 56r-v, 57v, 61r. This MS identified by R.Rubinstein, 2012.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Balinese
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 62 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16802
Title:: Illustrated scenes from Ādiparwa
Scope & Content:: Scenes from Ādiparwa. Each leaf consists of illustrations of two scenes on one side, most of which include Garuda, and one-line captions on the reverse captions in Balinese (not Literary Balinese or Old Javanese). ‘The handwriting is not elegant; some letters are not well written and, ther...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Balinese
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 5 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16803
Title:: Raden (Ardi) Kusuma romance
Scope & Content:: Raden (Ardi) Kusuma romance A MS perhaps from Madura. Complete. The first folio containing the basmalah enclosed within foliate scrolls. This MS identified by Edwin Wieringa (14 March 2011) who noted, ‘Scanning the leaves for key terms, I detected the words Mĕsir, Ngĕrum, and Kusuma, so perh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 100 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16911
Title:: Calendar
Scope & Content:: Balinese calendar. Each leaf has 7 illustrated panels with captions in Balinese. In Balinese language and script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Balinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16912
Title:: Historical prose text
Scope & Content:: ‘Historical’ prose text, from Bali. Comment by S. Supomo, 27 October 2013: “I can only say that the MS is probably a kind of Old Javanese ‘historical’ prose – like the Pararaton. This is apparent from some proper names which occur in the text, e.g.: [ha]yam Uruk, sryaji Wĕngker, patih Madhu, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Old Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16913
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph). In Javanese language and script. In verse.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 140 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16914
Title:: Carita Yusup
Scope & Content:: Carita Yusup. The story of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph). In Javanese language and script. In verse.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 141 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16922
Title:: Album of Japanese textile fragments
Scope & Content:: Album of the type known in Japanese as Kirechō 裂帖 containing 472 pieces of textiles (mainly Japanese but with a few Chinese examples) arranged on 77 leaves. Album has worn brocade covers and brass corner pieces. No text and no indication of former owners but probably assembled by a collector in ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16981
Title:: Laghu-Kālacakratantra
Scope & Content:: An early version of the Laghu-Kālacakratantra in Sanskrit. Colophon: “….paramopāśaka Śrī Ajitāsena likhitaṃ [.] śakābtā 11 86 ….” (fol. 120r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1264
Extent:: foll.120, palm leaf pothi format. 6-7 lines per folio. 4.8x29.9cm (leaf), 3.2x25.5 (written)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16988
Title:: Gokaikō Yokohama gaikokujin jūtaku no zu 御開港横濱外国人住宅ノ圖
Scope & Content:: Topographical view of the foreign settlement in Yokohama following the opening of the treaty ports in 1859, showing individual plots occupied by named British, American Dutch and Portuguese businesses and households. Undated but between 1861 when the cathedral was built and 1866 when the origi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1861-1866
Extent:: 1 sheet

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