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Martaban (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Burmese manuscript, 1827 - 1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/21
Scope and Contents

300 x 300 mm, 27 lines to a folio. It contains three texts:

1 YEI MRUI. SAMAIN, (Yei-myo thamaing) History of Ye down to B.E. 1181 (1819 A.D.) f. 1-14

2 History of Martaban, f. 15-20

3 SASANA SUIK KIN, (Tha-thana thaik-kein), Predictions and prophecies, for years B.E. 1101-1211 (1739-1849 A.D.), f. 21-23.





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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Sketch of routes between Martaban, Tavoy and Bangkok by Capt. H. Burney, Envoy to the Court of Siam, 1827

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/9/2
Scope and Contents

Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. A neater but identical copy of RCMS 65/9/9/1.

Dates: 1827
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).
 File

Sketch of routes between Martaban, Tavoy and Bangkok by Capt. H. Burney, Envoy to the Court of Siam, 1827

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/9/9/1
Scope and Contents

Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. With note: 'This sketch is taken from several sketches & descriptions furnished by native Christian Burmese & Siamese travellers.' Place names are entered in both Thai and Burmese forms. There are also notes concerning Lieutenant Shortland's journey in 1827 from Martaban to Three Pagodas.

Dates: 1827
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).