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2741. Or 5149

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5149
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 80 folios, 26x11 cm. Illustrated.

2742. Or 5268

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5268
Title:
ዳዊት, Psalter.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 1r-123r. Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት. ff. 123r-136v . The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments: ff. 137r-144r. Song of Songs of Solomon, መኃልየ መኃልይ ዘሰሎሞን. Divivded into five sections, all except the first preceded by the doxology: ስብሐት ለ አብ ወወልድ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2743. Or 5421

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5421
Title:
Prayer of the Virgin Mary at Golgotha- Temherta Ḥebu’at.
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 2r-31v. Prayer of the Virgin Mary at Golgotha. Title: ዘጸለየት ባቲ አመ ፳፮ለወርኃ ሰኔ በደብረ ጎለጎታ ዘውእቱ መቃብረ እግዚእነ ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ. ff. 32r- 44r. Temherta Ḥebu’at (“Doctrina arcanorum”) ትምህርት ኅቡአት. A geometrical ornamentation on the first folio of the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
1700-1900
Extent:
1 item

2744. Or 5424

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5424
Title:
Prayer scroll
Scope & Content:
An Ethiopian manuscript containing:ክታብ, Magical prayers scroll composed of 3 strips. Decorated with 3 miniatures. Remarks: The name of the owner (f.) Walatta Mika'el šahlitu. Brought from C. Shapland. 12 July 1898
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Geez
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

2745. Or 5427

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5427
Title:
Patent of Kangxi 61 (1722) [Elhe taifin-i ninju emuci aniya omšon biyai orin. Abkai hesei g'aoming] [ᡝᠯᡥᡝ ᡨᠠᠢᠢᡶᡞᠨ ᡞ ᠨᡞᠨᠵᡠ ᡝᠮᡠᠴᡞ ᠠᠨᡞᠶᠠ ᠣᠮᡧᠣᠨ ᠪᡞᠶᠠᡞ ᠣᠷᠢᠨ᠃ ᠠᠪᡣᠠᡞ ᡥᡝᠰᡝᡞ ᡬᠠᠣᠮᡞᡢ] [Kangxi liu shi yi nian feng tian gao ming] [康熙六十一年奉天誥命]
Scope & Content:
Bilingual Manchu-Chinese patent conferring the title Horon be tucibuhe giyanggiyūn (ᡥᠣᠷᠣᠨ ᠪᡝ ᡨᡠᠴᡞᠪᡠᡥᡝ ᡤᡞᠶᡢᡤᡞᠶᡡᠨ) / Xuan wu jiang jun (宣武將軍) upon Qiu Lianhui (仇連會). His wife, He (和), becomes Gingguji hehe (ᡤᡞᡢᡤᡠᠵᡞ ᡥᡝᡥᡝ) / Gong ren (恭人). Dated Kangxi 61st year, 11th month, 20th day 康熙六十一年十一月二十日 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Manchu
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 scroll

2746. Or 5634

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5634
Title:
Collection of thirteen Druze texts.
Scope & Content:
Collection of thirteen Druze texts.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 87

2747. Or 5757

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5757
Title:
ဧကာဒသမရှင်ပိဏ္ဍောလတန်ခိုးပြဟန်အစပုပ္ပါရုံကျောင်းနှိုက်ဝါဆိုဟန်အဆုံး
Scope & Content:
Coloured drawings of account of Buddha''s life containing twenty scenes including the performing of miracles and spending the rainy season or Buddhist Lent at various places.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
70 folds

2748. Or 5982

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5982
Title:
Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 19789-19790
Scope & Content:
Chapters 19789 and 19790 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1562-1572
Extent:
39 folios

2749. Or 6557

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6557
Title:
ʻIlm al-Raml
Scope & Content:
This work was gifted (?) to the British Museum Library by a Muhammad Shami on October 10th 1903 and catalogued in 1904. According to a slip of paper pasted on blank recto of first folio "in handwriting of donor", this work is a "book on Reml (Ar. ʻIlm al-Raml, sand divination) and magic and some ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1214-1305
Extent:
124 folios

2750. Or 6575

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6575
Title:
West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt
Scope & Content:
A finely copied and illuminated West African edition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular prayer book by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). The work is illuminated by illuminations on folios 2v, 65v, 77r, 99v, 128r and 147r, many of them consisting of a square of geometric design...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
177 ff

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