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    Palm Leaf Collection: Tamil Manuscripts
    Tivākarum (fragment) by Tivākarar
    19th century
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1717/PL.82
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 item
    Language:Tamil
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  • 2
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kinmō zui 訓蒙圖彙 [訓蒙図彙]
    1666
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.ff.1*
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Some yellow stains and burn-holes on ff. 3-4 of maki 18 repaired by urauchi patching. Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks. Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts on every page depicting natural phenomena and manmade objects, two to each page (4 per folio). Manuscript notes: Illustrations numbered throughout by Kaempfer, and many names of plants transliterated in roman script in black or red ink, also in Kaempfer's hand. Manuscript note on paper slip pasted to front cover: A Japanese pictorial encyclopedia. Duplicate of the 7th and 8th volumes. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or. 12, on mikaeshi
    Language:Japanese
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  • 3
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kinmō zui 訓蒙圖彙 [訓蒙図彙]
    1666
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.ff.1
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts on every page depicting natural phenomena and manmade objects, two to each page (4 per folio). Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on last page of each satsu. Manuscript notes: Note on mikaeshi of satsu 1: This Book is in the old Character and is probably a Dictionary of Arts. Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770. Title transliterated (possibly in Kaempfer's hand) on title slip of satsu 8: Kinmodzui. Numbering and some transliterated headings in Kaempfer's hand in a few volumes. Note on paper slip pasted on mikaeshi of satsu 8 (probably in the hand of J. G. Scheuchzer) : The naturall history of Japan, in Chinese, their meteors, anatomy, arts, plants, animals etc. in Japonese language w. some notes of Dr. Kempfer ... Old shelfmarks, Pr. Or. 24, 19, 23, 20, 16, 17, 13, 11, written on mikaeshi of each satsu
    Language:Japanese
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  • 4
    Robert Shipboy MacAdam Manuscript
    1842-1856
    Ref:GB 752 RSMAM
    Location:Queen's University Belfast Special Collections & Archives
    Name of creator:
    McAdam Robert Shipboy (1808-95).
    Extent:23 folios containing approx. 1145 pages (11.5 x 14.5 inches)
    Language:English, and Irish
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  • 5
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Proof copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on geology
    1879
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/8/3
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 bundle
    Language:English
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  • 6
    Persian letters
    19th c
    Ref:GB 227 ms27(O)
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Extent:90 letters
    Language:Persian English
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  • 7
    Sinhalese school text and Pali dictionary.
    18th c?
    Ref:GB 227 msPK2855.A6
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 item
    Language:Pali Sinhalese
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  • 8
    Letters to John Derry from Arthur Mee
    1905-1936
    Ref:GB 6 RUL MS 4057
    Location:University of Reading Special Collections Services
    Name of creator:
    Mee Arthur.
    Extent:1 box containing c. 150 items
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Plas Power Manuscripts
    Deunydd ar gyfer geiriadur Cymraeg
    [18 cent.]
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 724A
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Language:Welsh, Italian, Arabic, Latin
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