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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5424
Title:: Prayer scroll
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing:ክታብ, Magical prayers scroll composed of 3 strips. Decorated with 3 miniatures. Remarks: The name of the owner (f.) Walatta Mika'el šahlitu. Brought from C. Shapland. 12 July 1898
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5427
Title:: Patent of Kangxi 61 (1722) [Elhe taifin-i ninju emuci aniya omšon biyai orin. Abkai hesei g'aoming] [ᡝᠯᡥᡝ ᡨᠠᠢᠢᡶᡞᠨ ᡞ ᠨᡞᠨᠵᡠ ᡝᠮᡠᠴᡞ ᠠᠨᡞᠶᠠ ᠣᠮᡧᠣᠨ ᠪᡞᠶᠠᡞ ᠣᠷᠢᠨ᠃ ᠠᠪᡣᠠᡞ ᡥᡝᠰᡝᡞ ᡬᠠᠣᠮᡞᡢ] [Kangxi liu shi yi nian feng tian gao ming] [康熙六十一年奉天誥命]
Scope & Content:: Bilingual Manchu-Chinese patent conferring the title Horon be tucibuhe giyanggiyūn (ᡥᠣᠷᠣᠨ ᠪᡝ ᡨᡠᠴᡞᠪᡠᡥᡝ ᡤᡞᠶᡢᡤᡞᠶᡡᠨ) / Xuan wu jiang jun (宣武將軍) upon Qiu Lianhui (仇連會). His wife, He (和), becomes Gingguji hehe (ᡤᡞᡢᡤᡠᠵᡞ ᡥᡝᡥᡝ) / Gong ren (恭人). Dated Kangxi 61st year, 11th month, 20th day 康熙六十一年十一月二十日 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and Manchu
Date Range:: 1722
Extent:: 1 scroll

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5757
Title:: ဧကာဒသမရှင်ပိဏ္ဍောလတန်ခိုးပြဟန်အစပုပ္ပါရုံကျောင်းနှိုက်ဝါဆိုဟန်အဆုံး
Scope & Content:: Coloured drawings of account of Buddha''s life containing twenty scenes including the performing of miracles and spending the rainy season or Buddhist Lent at various places.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 70 folds

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 5982
Title:: Yongle dadian 永樂大典, chapters 19789-19790
Scope & Content:: Chapters 19789 and 19790 of the Chinese encyclopaedia “Yongle dadian”, unique, and notable for preserving texts not extant elsewhere.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1562-1572
Extent:: 39 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6466
Title:: Psalter, ዳዊት.
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 2r- 145v. Psalms, Incipit: ፍካሬ ዘጻድቃን ወዘኃጥአን መዝሙር ዘዳዊት ፩ ብፁዕ ብእሲ ዘኢሖረ. ff. 146r- 161r. The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments: First Song of Moses, ጸሎቱ ለሙሴ.Second Song of Moses, ጸሎተ ሙሴ ዘዳግም ሕግ. Third Song of Moses, ጸሎተ ሙሴ ዘሣልስ ሕግ.Son...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 17th century 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473
Title:: Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region I
Scope & Content:: A volume of 34 separate works from West Africa bound together by the BL in 1905 after acquisition in 1903 from a Julius Bertram. Some watermarks bear a date of 1819. Most works concern fiqh, Islamic law and tawḥīd and were basic instructional texts for use in Islamic education. Most of the later ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 286 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6473, f 190r
Title:: A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son
Scope & Content:: A letter from Muḥammad al-Amīn Suwaré in Touba to his son in Medina Suwaré Kunda, that he was to give to one Fūdī ʿUmar Sāma requesting the return of his book, Nafḥ al-Ṭayyib, a praise work. He lent it to the latter so that he could copy it, but he had not returned the book after repeated letters...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 f

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