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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16555
Title:: Title indicator
Scope & Content:: Wooden title indicator for palm leaf manuscript (bai lān), with gold leaf, from Northern Thailand (Lānnā).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali
Date Range:: 1800-1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16678
Title:: Islamic texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations
Scope & Content:: Islamic religious texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations and marginal notations. A: f. 1r. incomplete verses of Sūrat al-Baqarah: 163 and 255 (ayat Kursi), commonly read during dhikr and for other purposes, including tahlil. B and C: ff. 1v.-17r. Umm al-barāhin by Abū ‘Abd All...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 30 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16679
Title:: Islamic texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations
Scope & Content:: Islamic religious texts in Arabic with interlinear Javanese translations and marginal notations. A: ff. 1v.-2r. and f.51v. appear to belong together. The present a chart dealing with three types of hukm (law) in Javanese, namely (1) syarak lima, (2) [not seen here, but implicitly hukum akal] an...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 51 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16761
Title:: [Royal entertainments]
Scope & Content:: Illustrations of court entertainments with captions. Contains 17 scenes in water colour, enclosed in yellow panels, with short descriptions in Burmese below. (1) Capturing a white elephant (ff. 1-2) (2) Camping cooking (ff. 3) (3) A royal procession (ff. 4- 6) (4) Ceremonial ploughing (ff. 7...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume; 40 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16878
Title:: Unidentified Arabic text with interlinear Javanese translation
Scope & Content:: Unidentified Arabic text with interlinear Javanese translation in pegon script. In the opening quotes Shamsuddin Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Kasim al-Shafi‘i. In Javanese and Arabic language, in Arabic (pegon) script.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1 item; 157 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16915
Title:: Quran
Scope & Content:: Qur’ān, in Arabic, a fine illuminated copy from Aceh. Contents: f.1v, a prayer for the prophet and other notables, and a mnemonic poem (nazam) made up of the first words of each juz’; ff.2v-255r, text of the Qur’an; f.255v, a prayer on completion of the Qur’an. Text frames are ruled lines of r...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 255 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16915, ff iv-x
Title:: Binding for a Qur’ān
Scope & Content:: Loose full Islamic brown leather cover with envelope flap and stamped borders and medallions, dimensions 335 x 620 mm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: early 19th century
Extent:: Islamic brown leather cover

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16924
Title:: West African Illuminated copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt with Carrying Case
Scope & Content:: Richly illuminated West African copy of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, a popular book of devotional prayers to the Prophet Muhammad written by the Moroccan Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī (d.1465). Probably copied in Nigeria. Features full page illuminations (ff. 1v 2r 31v, 87v, 143v, 180v) and half-page i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 214 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16979
Title:: Album of Japanese kimono designs
Scope & Content:: 48 hand-painted paper cut-outs of kimono designs. Some appear to be for use with Japanese paper dolls or 'Anesama ningyō' 姉様人形. Inscription on inside of back cover reads: Dai-nise Senjusai Masaharu 第二世千寿齋雅春.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1900-1925
Extent:: 1 volume (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Papyrus 46
Title:: Handbook of Magic (P. Lond. I. 46, PGM V, TM 64368)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-1v: Oracle of Sarapis f. 1v: Direct vision (Clairvoyance) Spell ff. 1v-2r: [Spell to Catch a Thief] ff. 2r-3r: Stele of Ieu the Hieroglyphists ff. 3-3v: Another Way to Catch a Thief ff. 3v-7v: Hermes's Ring
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th century
Extent:: 7 pages of a papyrus codex, writing on both sides; written in one column containing an average of 37 lines on a page. Housed in seven glass frames.

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