Digitised Content: Yes (available) / Digitised Content Platform: BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13292
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 13201-13203.
Scope & Content:: Chapters 13201, 13202 and 13203 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere. Some folios missing.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 31 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13294
Title:: Aḍhāīdvīpa
Scope & Content:: Aḍhāīdvīpa: a diagram of the universe according to the Śvetāmbara tradition of Jainism. The text in Sanskrit and Gujarati is organized in four sections, around the painting.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 19th C
Extent:: Cloth. 66,5 x 69 cm. Colourful. Kept under a glass frame.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13342
Title:: Kalpasūtra fragments.
Scope & Content:: Kalpasūtra: fragments from the canonical Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit with illustrations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 16th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. Four illustrated folios: Or. 13342 (1)-(4) kept in four separate glass frames which has been edged with green leather. They belong to the same ms. 26 x 10 cm.; 7 lines. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13454
Title:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna by Śrīcandra.
Scope & Content:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna: Jain Śvetāmbara text on cosmology in Prakrit with illustrations and diagrams.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Prakrit
Date Range:: 17th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 25 x 11 cm. 10 lines. Lavishly illustrated

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13455
Title:: Kalpasūtra with Sanskrit glosses.
Scope & Content:: Kalpasūtra: incomplete version of the canonical Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit with Sanskrit glosses and illustrations.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 15th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 90 folios; 28 x 9 cm, 8 lines. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13456
Title:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna with Gujarati commentary
Scope & Content:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna in Prakrit by Śrīcandra with Dharmameru's Gujarati. commentary. Jain cosmological work of the Śvetāmbara tradition with illustrations and diagrams.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati and Prakrit
Date Range:: 19th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 92 folios; 28,5 x 13,5 cm. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13475
Title:: Kālakācārya-kathā
Scope & Content:: Kālakācārya-kathā in Sanskrit in the version known as Śrīvīravākyānumatam. Verse tale of the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 17th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 9 folios; 28x12 cm, 9 lines. Illustrated.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13523
Title:: Works in Javanese by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak
Scope & Content:: Works by Kyai Haji Ahmad Rifa‘i of Kalisalak (1786-1876). Ahmad Rifa‘i established his pĕsantren at Kalisalak after spending 1833-41 in Mecca, and was exiled by the Dutch colonial regime to Ambon in 1859, where he died. A: ff. 1r.-48r. Nazham tazkiyyah, by Haji Ahmad al-Rifa‘i ibn Muhammad Ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:: 1845
Extent:: 1 item; 244 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13524
Title:: Sālibhadra-caupāī by Matisāra.
Scope & Content:: Sālibhadra-caupāī by Matisāra: verse tale in Gujarati of the Śvetāmbara Jain tradition.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati
Date Range:: 18th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 37 folios; 28x11,5 cm. 11 lines. Richly illustrated with 43 well-preserved illustrations. With a lacuna.

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13538
Title:: ပဉ္စကနိပါတ်ဆူရေ၁။၂၅ဇာတ်ဘုရား
Scope & Content:: Scenes from the Jātaka stories, from Pañcanipāta. Illustrations: Contains illustrations of 21 stories, from the Maṇikundala Jātaka to the Dīghītikosala Jātaka.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 137 folds

Search