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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 52r-58v
Title:: A collection of hymns
Scope & Content:: A collection of hymns to the sun, Gushtasp and other works in Persian, Avestan, and a mixture of other languages
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 52r-58v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 59v-72v
Title:: Mukāshafāt-i Āzar Kayvān مکاشفات آذر کیوان
Scope & Content:: Revelations ascribed to Aẕar Kayvān in Persian in mixed prose and verse (ff. 59v-71r); followed (ff. 71v-72v) by an unfinished treatise: Zawrah-i bāstānī-i vakhshūr shit Zardusht (زورهٔ باستانی وخشور شت زردشت)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 59v-72v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12019
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 8022-8024
Scope & Content:: Chapters 8022, 8023 and 8024 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:: 53 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12020
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 13340-13341
Scope & Content:: Chapters 13340 and 13341 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:: 31 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12021
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 19740-19741
Scope & Content:: Chapters 19740 and 19741 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:: 36 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12025
Title:: Prayer scroll
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ክታብ, Magical prayers scroll composed of 3 strips. Decorated with 5 miniatures. Remarks: The name of the owner Gabra Maryam, the second owner Walatta Gabra Manfas Qeddus. Verso: "Thomas William Oliver, Royal Navy, from Colonel John Watts of Gunville, Dorset...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12040
Title:: 'Buddhanussati'
Scope & Content:: On recollection of the Buddha, explaining mindfulness with the Buddha’s virtues as objects. This is the first of the Four Guardian Meditations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Shan
Date Range:: 1866
Extent:: 142 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12125
Title:: The Octateuch in Amharic.
Scope & Content:: The Ethiopian foliation has in general the number on the verso of one leaf repeated on the recto of the following one. (f.Iv) Enumeration of the Books of the Old Testament, 39 in number. Title: የብሉይ ኪዳን መጻሕፍት እሊህ ናቸው . (ff. 2ra-55 vb) Genesis- ኦሪት ዘፍጥረት በዕብራይስጥ ብርሺት ይባላል (the leaves are numbe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12133
Title:: አቡሻክር, Abušākǝr.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing:: ff. 2r-12v. A short chronographical composition in Amharic. ff. 12v-64v. Abbreviated Amharic version of the chronological work of አቡሻክር, Abušākǝr. f.1r. A drawing in black ink representing a man holding a cross. f.1v. Ten lines of a chronographical text....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12467
Title:: Psalter, ዳዊት.
Scope & Content:: Psalter, ዳዊት. ff. 1r-2v. Prayer for the dying. ff. 3r-7v. A fragment of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary containing five miracles, the end of the last missing. ff. 8r-129r . Psalms, Incipit: ፍካሬ ዘጻድቃን ወዘኃጥአን መዝሙር ዘዳዊት ፩ ብፁዕ ብእሲ ዘኢሖረ. ff. 129v-142v. The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 1660
Extent:: 1 item

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