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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16991
Title:: O-ekagami
Scope & Content:: Japanese folding album containing 24 colour paintings. 12 illustrations represent the months of the year with poems on the theme of birds by Fujiwara Teika in the calligraphy of nobles and court officials.　The calligrapher's name and/or title is given on a paper slip alongside each painting. Sh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1691-1693
Extent:: ^{1 volume (6 leaves)}

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 17019
Title:: Nōmenzu 能面図
Scope & Content:: 'Illustrations of Noh Masks'. Contains forty-five hand-coloured illustrations of masks for characters from Noh plays. Copied by Kensai 顕斎. Dated Tenpō 4 [1833]. Accompanied by a separate document (dated 1956) with descriptions for the various masks based on a reference work by Sanari Kentarō 佐成...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1833
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/159
Title:: Keitoku dentōroku 景德傳燈錄 [景徳伝灯録]
Scope & Content:: Author/compiler: Daoyuan (宋) 道原, Chinese Chan monk. Imprint: N.p., [Kenninji 建仁寺, Tenjun'an 天潤菴] , Enbun 3, 1358. Kanki on fol. 23b of maki 18 reads: 延文三年丙申十一月吉日謹疏／幹縁比丘宗任. Description: 30 kan, formerly in 15 satsu, now rebound in 2 vols. (western style). 25.5 x 17.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockpr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1358
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/171
Title:: Rongo [shikkai] 論語 [集解]
Scope & Content:: Alternative reading of title: Rongo shūkai Author/compiler: He Yan 何晏, 3rd century. Imprint: Sakai 堺, Dōyū 道祐, Shōhei 19 正平甲辰, 1364. Kango reads: 堺浦道祜居士重新命工鏤梓／正平甲辰五月吉日謹誌 [date of first edition] . This copy was in fact printed somewhat later, c. 1390-1450. Description: 10 kan, formerly in 5...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1390-1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/217
Title:: Shinpen sentō yowa 新編剪燈餘話 [新編剪灯余話]
Scope & Content:: Variant title: Sentō yowa 剪燈餘話 [剪灯余話] Author/compiler: Li Changqi (明) 李昌祺, also known as Li Zhen 李禎, 1376-1452, original author. Text revised by Liu Jing (明) 劉敬 and collated for publication by Zhang Guangqi (明) 張光啓. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Genna / early-Kan'ei period, c. 1615-30] . No colophon. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1615-1630]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3282
Title:: Yūkun sekai kore otohime 遊君世界是男度比女
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Otohime おとひめ Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 4 [1784]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Colophon on last page of text: 画作謙好. Manuscript notes on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3283
Title:: Shitennō daitsū jitate 四天王大通仕達
Scope & Content:: Author: Korewasai 是和齋 ; artist: Shunrō 春朗 [= Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋]. Title on hanshin: Rashōmon らしやう門 Colophon on last page of volume 2: 是和齋戯作 / 春朗畫. Date Tenmei 2 [1804]. Description: 2 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 北斎画 / 天明二壬寅年. Contents...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1782
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB 30/3293
Title:: Chō chidori hiiki no datemon 蝶千鳥贔屓達門
Scope & Content:: Artist : Kashū 華州. Title on hanshin: Soga そが. Imprint: [Edo : Murataya Jirōbē 村田屋治郎兵衛], Kansei 2 [1790]. Description: 3 kan. vol.1: ff. 5, vol.2: ff. 5, vol.3: ff. 5. Blockprint. Manuscript notes on front cover: 華州画 / 寛政二年. Contents: A kibyōshi novel.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1790
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Ostracon 5790
Title:: Receipt for harbour fees (O.Wilck. II 304, TM 76867)
Scope & Content:: Receipt of Antonius Malchaius, head of the harbour police of Syene, for harbour fees (enhormion) covering the months Choiak until Pharmouthi of year 18 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, the goose breeder, with signature of Antonius Malchaius.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 25 April 115
Extent:: 1 pottery sherd inscribed on convex side, complete, 8 lines, housed in a cardboard box.

Reference (shelfmark):: Ostracon 5791
Title:: Receipt for poll tax, prison guards and salary of river police boats (O.Wilck. II 104, TM 76679)
Scope & Content:: Receipt through the scribe Sarapion for poll tax, prison guards and salary of river police boats (laographia, desmophylakia, misthos potamophylakidon) of year 19 of Trajan, paid by Harpaesis, son of ---sis and Tachnou---, with signature of Sarapion.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 23 July 116
Extent:: 1 pottery sherd inscribed on convex side, broken off at right, 9 lines, housed in a carboard box.

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