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

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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

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1 sheet.

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2 sheets.

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

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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.'

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113 x 159 mm. The Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Calcutta in 1873. See W.C.B. Purser, ‘Christian Missions in Burma’ (1911), pp. 117-118 and facing p. 180; and J.E. Marks, ‘Forty Years in Burma’ (1917) pp. 169-170.

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78 x 53 mm. A view of coastline.

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2 pages.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

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2 pages including sketch.

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1 sheet.

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1 page.

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4 pages.

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21 sheets.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

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207 x 148 mm. Men working on boats near the shore.

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212 x 151 mm. A market scene.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

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157 x 112 mm. Showing a verandahed bungalow, with a garden in front on the slope running down to the river. The figure standing on the verandah is presumably Mills, about whom no biographical information is to hand.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing photographic prints and coloured reproductions. Prints 2-62 are coloured reproductions from Kelly, R. Talbot (1905) Burma painted and described, London : Adam and Charles Black. The remainder are original photographs by Thomas Harry Goldsworthy Stevens. The prints mainly measure approximately 100 x 75 mm, although some are larger. The album is interleaved with sheets on which are typed captions, up to print 261. Photographs beyond this point are uncaptioned. The...

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149 x 106 mm. A group of buildings viewed from the distance.

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...

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1 List of Kings of Arakan. 10 pages.
2 List of Kings of Jemmay [Chieng Mai]. 1 page.
3 Various lists.