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ff.I + 221 + I; 152 x 90mm; text variable, in a brown binding.
A draft for a Chinese dictionary complied by Alexander Wylie. See ‘The Monthly Reporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society’, Vol. xvi, April 1887, p. 50.

Scope and Contents ff. a) I + 13 + II; b) I + 17 + I; both 228 x 182mm; text on full page. Bound in two copy books, a) in pink paper binding, b) in grey paper.This is an apparently anonymous disputation in Chinese with an English translation in the second volume, of the thesis that: "the language of other countries is equally difficult of acquisition with the Chinese" - with the objections of two opponents.The handwriting is a nineteenth century Romanised hand adapted for...

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ff.115; 330 x 200mm; text size 236 x 142mm; 7 written lines alternating with 7 lines left blank for corrections. Head titles decorated with red ink. Squared Chinese paper in light brown paper covers tied up with string.
Translated by F.W. Baller who was in the Committee for the revision of the Bible into colloquial Mandarin which took from 1891 to 1919. He saw the complete Bible through the press. The Holy Bible published Shanghai: BFBS, 1919.

Scope and Contents ff.III + 201 + I; 295 x 187mm; text size 255 x 155mm; 12 lines; bound in light brown leather over card boards, with five bands.Collation: 1(8), wants 1 - supplied from copy in British Library, 2-24 (8), 25(6) blank, 26(4) blank. This MS is on a European paper watermarked mainly by a hunting horn on a shield or cartouche - a device much used especially on writing papers from about 1650. (cf Heawood’s collection of watermarks BL Add. MS. 41302, f.48 no.3, with notes in the associated...

Scope and Contents ff.II + 306 + II; 258 x 150mm; text size 220 x 120mm; 8 lines on Chinese double paper bound in a black binding.Before leaving England for Canton, Robert Morrison had obtained a copy of Jean Basset’s MS in the British Museum (Sloane 3599). This copy is in the library of the Morrison Education Society in Hong Kong. A copy was made from it for E.C. Bridgeman of the A.B.C.F.M. and later one of the Delegates who produced the 1852 New Testament and 1854 Old Testament known as the Delegates’...

Scope and Contents ff.4000 (approx.); 201 x 164mm; text size varies around 185 x 150mm; usually 10 lines, bound in approx. 96 exercise books each of 50 pp.Contents: Leviticus - I Chronicles and Jeremiah to Malachi.A revision by P. Jenkins (CMS) and N.F. K’wang, who prepared a tentative revision of Genesis in 1937 (ABS & BFBS: Shanghai Sp 688). The complete Bible followed in 1959 (BFBS: Hong Kong Sp 689).P. Jenkins had been engaged in revision of the Cantonese Scriptures since before 1924 when...

Scope and Contents ff.1854 (approx.); mimeographed. Bound in beige paper.Although not strictly a manuscript this autograph mimeograph draft of the O.T. (Ruth is missing) by Lü Chen-chung is worth noting as the first new Protestant translation into Kuoyü since the Union version of 1919. It was translated from the Greek and a tentative New Testament was published in 1946 for circulation and comment (Peiping Yenching University, School of Religion, Sp 530). The complete Bible was published in 1970 by the...