Subject: Erotica - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1023/28/7
Title:: रसमञ्जरी टीका
Scope & Content:: Sanskrit classic Rasamanjari, a long poem with epical stretch but not an epic, is a work by the known Sanskrit poet Bhanudatta. It is a 15th century text on Indian aesthetics. This is an erotic text. Rasamanjari literally refers to the cluster of blossoms full of Rasas. It is one of the most ins...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 90 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1023/28/8
Title:: रसमञ्जरी
Scope & Content:: Sanskrit classic Rasamanjari, a long poem with epical stretch but not an epic, is a work by the known Sanskrit poet Bhanudatta. It is a 15th century text on Indian aesthetics. This is an erotic text. Rasamanjari literally refers to the cluster of blossoms full of Rasas. It is one of the most ins...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 20 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1031/1
Title:: Akshyay Granthagar Library's Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection deals with Sanskrit grammar, Smriti, cantos of the Mahabharata, dramas, the Puranas, Tantric liturgies and rituals, Gaudiya Vaishnava hagiography, theology and rituals, Shaivite liturgies and rituals, Ayurveda medicine, lexicons, aesthetics, and poetry. Taken together, 294 Sanskr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1316-1845
Extent:: 20156 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1031/1/99
Title:: অমরুশতক
Scope & Content:: It comprised 100 verses the subject of which is mostly erotic and romantic love.; Complete / Incomplete: Complete MS.; Place of composition: Not Known; Date of copying: 1742 Ṥakābda. Extent: One Manuscript of 14 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 43 x 9 cm. Condition of origina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1820
Extent:: 29 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1031/1/157
Title:: স্মরদীপিকা
Scope & Content:: A text of erotic and romantic love. Kāmaśāstra text.; Complete / Incomplete: Complete MS.; Place of composition: Not Known; Date of copying: Not mentioned. Extent: One Manuscript of 3 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 50 x 10 cm. Condition of original material: Extremely fragi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 7 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3
Title:: Collections of Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 262 files and 2522 images. NILGIRIS DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (NDC) officially inaugurated by British council Director Mr. Chris Gibson in 2006. This is the only surviving unique collection in this region, and not yet explored by any researchers. 1) Mr. A. Dharmalingam, son o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Not applicable, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1st half of the 20th century
Extent:: 2522 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: This file contains 609 photographs. Extent: The file containing 609 Photographs. Country of Origin: India. Related regions: Tamil Nadu; Karnataka; Maharashtra; Orissa; Uttar Pradesh; Andhra Pradesh; Delhi; Calcutta; Ceylon.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Not applicable, and Tamil
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 609 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8727
Title:: Tadil-i emzice - تعديل امزجه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a manual of hygiene by Şuuri Hasan Efendi (died 1105 AH/1693-94 CE), better known as the author of the Ferheng-i Şuuri. The work (according to OM II, p. 261) was dedicated to the Grand Vezir Ahmet Paşa. On f 118r of this copy, the date of composition (1088 AH/1677-78 CE) is ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1208
Extent:: 1 text, 118 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8883
Title:: [Bahname?] - [باهنامه؟]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an anonymous Ottoman Turkish version of the Bāh-nāmah, a Persian work on erotica compiled by Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Maᶜarrī (died 821 AH/1418-19 CE), incorporating additional matter and anecdotes from other works in this category. The text contains a single unvan. T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1246
Extent:: 1 text, 154 ff

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