Manuscript

Historical manuscripts on parchment, palm leaf and other materials, in languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Chinese dialects.

Images from the collections

Images of Manuscript

674 images from works
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • Human body, arteries and viscera, Persian, 1893
  • Calligraphy - Kufi
  • S'lokadvayi, Abhinavagoptapada: folio 11 verso - 12 recto
  • Calligraphy - Nasta'liq
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 27 recto
  • Sagittarius - Horoscope from 'The book of birth of Iskandar"
  • The story of the Bhagvadgita. Seated on the throne and served by an attendant waving a whisk made of peacock feathers, the blind king Dhrtarastra listens as the visionary narrator Sanjaya relates the events of the battle between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans
  • Manuscript account of Lord Nelson's fatal wound, 1805 (?)
  • Report by Nunez de Haro y Peralta on the Casa de Ninos Expositos, Mexico 1777

Images about Manuscript

19 images from works
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • Folio 31 recto, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Folio 41r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • Folio 30v-31r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Tibetan musical score. Wellcome Tibetan 42.
  • A bibliographical, antiquarian, and picturesque tour in France and Germany / By the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin.

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