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71. Or 6885

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6885
Title:
Qin ding huang xi yu tu zhi. 欽定皇輿西域圖志卷一至三.
Scope & Content:
A description of the regions of Central Asia West of China, with 33 maps. By Fu Heng.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1850?
Extent:
1 item, 2 volumes bound together (99 folios)

72. Or 6971

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6971
Title:
Yu shuo. 玉說.
Scope & Content:
A Chinese treatise on jade by Tang Rongzuo.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1890
Extent:
1 volume (38 folios)

73. Or 6972

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6972
Title:
Menggu zi yun. Meng ku tiu yun. 蒙古字韻二卷.
Scope & Content:
Menggu zi yun. Meng ku tiu yun. A Yuan Manuscript by Zhu Zongwen.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1308
Extent:
1 volume (66 folios)

74. Or 6994

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6994
Title:
行用鈔法 Xing yong chao fa
Scope & Content:
Copy of memorials and imperial rescripts of the reign of Xianfeng (1850-61)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
1861-1909
Extent:

Two texts bound in one single Western-style volume

75. Or 6995

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6995
Title:
大慈大悲陀羅尼神咒 Da ci da bei tuo luo ni shen zhou [Great Compassion Dhāraṇī]
Scope & Content:
The full name of the Dhāraṇī is 千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經大悲神咒 which is also know as 大悲心陀羅尼 (Skt: Mahā Karuṇā-citta Dhāraṇī) or 大悲咒 (Skt: Mahā Karuṇā Dhāraṇī). The Dhāraṇī belongs to the Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, who is traditionally believed to listen to the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
c 1700-1909
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

76. Or 7360

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7360
Title:
聖跡全圖. Sheng ji chuan tu. Scenes from the life of Confucius (2 volumes).
Scope & Content:
Two concertina volumes with printed illustrations of the life of Confucius, with handwritten captions in Chinese and additional later English notes in pen. It appears to be an incompleted work containing only chapters 1-5 of 24. Written on the item in English: Plates illustrative of the Life o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
before 1815
Extent:

2 volumes (81 folios in total).

11 folios

77. Or 7364

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7364
Title:
[《本草綱目》植物名錄]. ["Ben cao gang mu" zhi wu ming lu]. Names of plants described in the Ben cao gang mu (Compendium of Materia Medica).
Scope & Content:
Names of plants described in the Ben cao gang mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), with later additions in pen (English translations and Wade-Giles transliterations) and pencil (some attempts to add the Latin names of the plants listed). The British Museum hard cover spine reports: Or 7364, Brit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (30 folios).

11 folios

78. Or 7365

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7365
Title:
路程一卷. Lu cheng. Itinerary of China.
Scope & Content:
中英合璧。主要記錄南方江、浙、贛、閩、粵間水路航程、里數，各關口放行例等。
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (71 folios).

11 folios

79. Or 7371

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7371
Title:
Chinese - Latin Dictionary [漢語-拉丁語字典] [Han yu - la ding yu zi dian].
Scope & Content:
A Chinese-Latin dictionary arranged according to the sounds in Portuguese transliteration, with radical index. Compiled by Jesuit missionaries.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and Latin
Date Range:
1750?
Extent:

1 volume (548 folios).

80. Or 7378

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7378
Title:
天主十誡勸論聖蹟
Scope & Content:
A manuscript volume recording the Ten Commandments.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese
Date Range:
before 1909
Extent:
1 volume (100 folios)