Burmese manuscript and notes, 1825.

Burmese manuscript and notes.

Parabaik of Mahaminhlasithu, governor of Prome [Myan Mar], requesting the dispatch of a gunstock maker, provisions, and a dancer, to a [military] camp [at Danubyu ?][Myanmar]. February 1825.

Descriptive note of Robert Saunders Dundas [2nd Viscount Melville], October 1826.

Typescript letter, signed from G E Harvey, to Iain Gordon Campbell reporting on the same (1p). Together with a partial transcription, by G E Harvey, of the parabaik with notes (3p). Signed G E Harvey. 13 St Margaret's Rd, Oxford, 17 December 1934.

Typescript letter, signed from Iain C Gordon Campbell to A Bennet giving the provenance of the same. Signed Iain. C. Gordon-Campbell. Headed notepaper: St Andrews Branch of the League of Prehistorians. St Andrews, 16 January 1935.

Mahaminhlasithu, governor of Prome [Myanmar].

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Restored to the custody of the library, 16 January 1935.

Call number used to be ms141

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Parabaik: slate paper 36.8x30.4cm, folded twice.

Descriptive note: paper 36.7x23.5cm folded.

Letters: paper 20.4x25cm approx.

Description compiled by Maia Sheridan, Archives Hub project archivist, based on material from the Manuscripts Database

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Formerly in the Upper United College Hall, 1826

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