Container Reference (shelfmark): EAP1005/32 / Subject: Children / Digitised Content Platform: Endangered Archives Programme - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Container Reference (shelfmark) EAP1005/32 Subject Children Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/5
Title:: Farewell rituals for ill-fated infants
Scope & Content:: Mantras, incantations and instructions for performing a farewell ritual to ill-fated infants to send them back to their ancestors. 10 pages. Cham manuscript; no covers; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 30cm x 17.5cm. The condition of the manuscr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 10 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/18
Title:: Three poems on fortune telling, travel, and morality
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes three poems: a poem about the instructions on finding the fair dates, months, fair and deteriorating directions for departure (ariya harei balan); a narrative poem about things witnessed by a Cham person during his/her first travel (ariya deh apuei); a teaching poem for y...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 78 TIFF images

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