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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/5
Title:: The Keprabon Collection, Surakarta
Scope & Content:: This collections largely consists of notebooks that were used at the Public teacher's college, known as the Normal or Normaal School, in Surakarta. This school offered two-years programmes to young Javanese students around the age of fifteen to prepare them for a teaching post in indigenous prim...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese, Dutch, English, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:: 1887-1970
Extent:: 2061

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/5/2/4
Title:: H. Rijara Pidana
Scope & Content:: Unlike suggested by the title, this volume contains notes on various topics that are summarised in the schedule found on the first page. The notebook starts with typography, moves on to the Greec classics, and then treats biography, accounting, agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry and g...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 46

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1268/5/2/13
Title:: Asal2 Ekonomi [I]
Scope & Content:: This exercise book was written by a student at the Openbare Normaal School of the Inlandse Hulpond in Surakarta. Unlike suggested in its title, which is crossed out for a reason, the notebook does not treat economics. It starts by discussing the first pensionary of the Batavian council Rutger Jan...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Javanese
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 46

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1294/1
Title:: Kalliṭaikuṟicci collection
Scope & Content:: These bundles contain different kinds of works (theology, philosophy, poetry, medical texts, Pāninian Grammar, Śrīvaiṣṇava treatise, Śrīvaiṣṇava poetry, Dharmaśāstra, Citrakāvyam, Kāvya, Mīmāṃsā, vedic, Pramāṇa, Vyākaraṇa etc.) in Sanskrit, Tamil and Manipravala. Extent: 108 bundles of palm-lea...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Manipravalam, Sanskrit, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1750-1900
Extent:: 13380 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1294/1/66
Title:: Miscellanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript does not have a formal title. Medicinal tips, astronomy, religious poems, etc. மருத்துவக் குறிப்புகள், சோதிடம், இலக்கியங்கள் (கந்தனனுபூதி, நைடதம் ஆகியவை). Extent: A palm-leaf manuscript of 114 leaves. Size and dimensions of original material: L 32 cm x W 3 cm x H 6 cm. Condi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1750-1900
Extent:: 118 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1296/6
Title:: Nirmala KC Collection
Scope & Content:: This is an individual collection of manuscripts written in Sanskrit language. It is the collection which is inherited from the family collection. It has both Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts along with grammar, polity, astrology and Puranic texts. Extent: It has eleven books written during the an...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Newari and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1400-1999
Extent:: 438

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1296/6/1
Title:: ज्योतिर्विद्या
Scope & Content:: Jyotirvidyā is the astrological science of computation to astronomy and astrology. Extent: 1 Ms containing 135 folios. Condition of original material: Good. Alternative calendar and date: Shaka, 1734.0 Original institution reference: No accession Number.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1400-1999
Extent:: 135

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1320/1
Title:: Manuscripts conserved by Sankaran Bhattathirippad
Scope & Content:: MRPC is a unique laboratory with preservation and digitization facility and complete recovery of physical documents from Thrissur. Extent: In this column indicate foliation ranges for bundle and, in the case of multitext mss, also foliation for discrete texts. Folio count will be added by assis...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Malayalam and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 12045 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1320/1/4
Title:: Mixed bundle
Scope & Content:: Multiple-text palm-leaf manuscript containing astronomy details. Good condition. Plain wooden covers. Cotton ribbons used in this Ms. we could visualize vivid varieties of writing styles in this manuscript. Extent: 63complete bundle of inscribed palm- leaf. 5 blank palm-leaf in one side. Condi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Malayalam and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 132 TIFF images

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