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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:

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Mantanani, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4291
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. About $1500 ($ = 2s/4d) worth of birdsnests (edible) are collected and exported annually from this island : it is about 3 hours sail from Usukan Bay.

Dates: 1909-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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MANU RAN: DHAMMASAT, (Manu-yin Damathat), Manu-yin Law Code, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/36
Scope and Contents

Summaries only of sections on enslaved persons, debts, husbands and wives, and the distribution of goods (7 sheets).

Dates: 1827 - 1838
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Manuscript containing three texts, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/99
Scope and Contents

Large sewn paper manuscript, 200 x 230 mm, 220 sheets.

1 PANNA KATHANA, (Pin-ya-ka-ta-na), Compendium of Knowledge, compiled by Kan-be hpon-gyi, in 7 parts, and adapted by Awbha rampha, 1-151

2 PARAMATTHAMANJUSA, Treatise on Abhidhamma. The colophon states that it was compiled by Saradassi of Pagan (possibly Vepullabuddhi), 151-198

3 Sections on metaphysics, 199-200





Dates: 1827 - 1838
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map : Arabia and Indian Ocean, 1964 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham N/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides showing maps of Arabia and the Indian Ocean together with scenes in the governorate of Abyan.

Dates: 1964 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map : Arabia and Indian Ocean, 1964 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham N/1A
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains slides showing maps of Arabia and the Indian Ocean together with scenes in the governorate of Abyan.

Dates: 1964 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Agra Fort, 1883 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/1
Scope and Contents

A map prepared for the Preservation of National Monuments in India, plate no. 8, by Major Cole, 1883. There are manuscript notes and alterations by F.O. Oertel showing the route followed on the occasion of the Royal Visit to India, 18 December 1905.

Dates: 1883 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Agra Fort, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/6
Scope and Contents

There are manuscript additions showing the route followed on the occasion of the Royal Visit to India, 18 December 1905.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Ceylon, 1980 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/23
Scope and Contents

584 x 270 mm. pen and ink.

Dates: 1980 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Fatehpur-Sikri, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/7
Scope and Contents

A general plan showing the outer wall of Fatehpur-Sikri, capital of the Emperor Akbar, 1569-1605.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Malay Peninsula., 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...
Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Moulmein, 1830 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/28
Scope and Contents

1 sheet.

Dates: 1830 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Map of Palestine], 1908 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/446
Scope and Contents

A photograph of a map of Palestine.

Dates: 1908 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Punjab manoeuvres, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/3
Scope and Contents

Prepared for the military tattoo at Rawalpindi, 8 December 1905, on the occasion of the Royal Visit to India.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Rangoon, 1825 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/29
Scope and Contents

2 sheets.

Dates: 1825 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Rangoon, 1825 - 1841

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/30
Scope and Contents

2 sheets. Shows streets and water features, but no buildings.

Dates: 1825 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Rawalpindi district, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/4
Scope and Contents

Issued on the occasion of the Royal Visit to the military tattoo, 8 December 1905.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Rawalpindi district, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/52/5
Scope and Contents

Issued on the occasion of the Royal Visit to the military tattoo, 8 December 1905.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of territory to East of Karenni., 1831-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/9/5
Scope and Contents

380 x 490 mm, in ink. A note reads, 'From a Map belonging to a Widow of King Mrudaragyee, a native of Zenmay said to be 42 years of age. Ava, 30 Jan 1831.'

Dates: 1831-01-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maples (Autumn), 1870 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/146
Scope and Contents

242 x 194 mm. Duplicate in monochrome of Y302A/115. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maples (Autumn) [hand coloured], 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/115
Scope and Contents

237 x 189 mm. View showing a river running through a maple wood, with a small wooden bridge in the foreground. Photograph probably by Kusakabe Kimbei.

Dates: 1870 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mar. 14.95, 5pm, dull, F.11, counted 12, 1895-03-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/51
Scope and Contents

Showing a European lady seated with a child on her lap.

Dates: 1895-03-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Marala Dam, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302M/11
Scope and Contents

78 x 53 mm.

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maratha of the Dekkan 15144, 1850 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/111
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm.

Dates: 1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Marble carved ceilings shewing [sic] Jain Mythology in Dilwara Temples, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/69
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. No. 1197.

Dates: 1874 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Marble Cenotaph of Maharaja Sawai Jey Singh, Jeypur, 1874 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/63
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. No. 1791.

Dates: 1874 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).