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2661. Or 770

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 770
Title:
አባ መቃቢስ, Abbā Maqābis.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-161r. አባ መቃቢስ, Abbā Maqābis, imperfect at the beginning.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2662. Or 771

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 771
Title:
ዜና እምቃለ ቅዱስ አትናቴዎስ The Life of Atnātewos.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-139v. ዜና እምቃለ ቅዱስ አትናቴዎስ the Life of Atnātewos.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2663. Or 777

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 777
Title:
መጽሐፈ ሓዊ, Maṣḥafa Hawi.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-287v. መጽሐፈ ሓዊ, Maṣḥafa Hawi.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
1745
Extent:
1 item

2664. Or 790

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 790
Title:
መጽሐፈ መድበል Mestira Zaman, vol.1
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: The first volume of a work entitled Mashafa Madbal, or, “Collection of the Mysteries of the Times," or , Mest'ra Zaman, “the Mystery of Time." f.1r, Unfinished and uncoloured drawing of Annunciation of the blessed Virgin, in outline. f. 1v. መጽሐፈ መድበል. ዘቅዱስ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
1721-1730
Extent:
1 item

2665. Or 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 791
Title:
መጽሐፈ መድበል Mashafa Madbal Vol II.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: The second volume of the Mashafa Madbal, that is, the Mest'ira Zaman Sadis, or " Mystery of the New Time," as opposed to vol. I., Mest'ira Zaman Beluy (see Or 790). f. 1r, ወንጌል አስተዋጽኦ. ዘቅዱስ መድኃኔ ዓልም. f. 3r. Introduction in prose. The work itself begins wit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2666. Or 818

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 818
Title:
ክብረ ነገሥት Kebra Nagast, or "the Glory of the Kings”.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ክብረ ነገሥት Kebra Nagast, or "the Glory of the Kings”.ff. 191. f. 3r. ክብረ ነገሥት Kebra Nagast, or "the Glory of the Kings”. f. 46r. An index of 122 chapters, በእንተ ክብረ ነገሥት, wrongly numbered 123 (፻፳፫). f. 51r. The workbegins on, as follows; በስመ እግዚአብሔር መሓሪ ወመስተሣ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
1700-1750
Extent:
1 item

2667. Or 1234

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1234
Title:
御筆十全記 Yu bi shi quan ji [Qianlong's Ten Victories]
Scope & Content:
Qianlong's Ten Victories: chronicle of ten successful campaigns conducted by the Emperor in 1790. The author is the Emperor himself, and the manuscript contains the Emperor’s own handwriting embroidered on silk. The item had been incorrectly catalogued in the past as "A poetical account of the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1792
Extent:

1 volume

11 folios

2668. Or 1287

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1287
Title:
Genji monogatari kotoba 源氏物語詞
Scope & Content:
An album containing an extract from each of the 54 chapters of the 'Tale of Genji' on the righthand side of the opening and a corresponding painting by Sumiyoshi Jokei 住吉如慶 (1599-1670) on the opposite page. The extracts are written by imperial princes and high-ranking members of the Court of Emp...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1665-1666
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

2669. Or 1386

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1386
Title:
Bṛhaccūrṇivyākhyā
Scope & Content:
Bṛhaccūrṇivyākhyā (Jain Śvetāmbara): Sanskrit commentary on the Jītakalpa (composed in V.S. 1227). It is also called Ṭippana (Viṣamapadavyākhyā) and comments on the eleven Prakrit verses of the cūrṇi and then the difficult expressions found in the following prose portion. Śrīcandrasūri was the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
13th C
Extent:
Palm leaf, poṭhi format, 78 folios. 30x5cm.

2670. Or 1435

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1435
Title:
Collection of twenty-six Druze texts.
Scope & Content:
Volume two of a collection of Druze texts. The contents are the same as in Add MS 11559.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 100

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