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Catalogues and handlists for manuscripts in Pali, Sinhalese and Burmese. These are:

• 'List of the Singhalese, Burmese and Pali manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society (made by G. Rost in 1849)' - handwritten list of 31 manuscripts.
• 'Buddhist Manuscripts' - handwritten list subdivided into 'Burmese Character', and 'Sinhalese MSS in the library on Jan.1. 1889'. List on 10 sides, foolscap paper.
• 'A Catalogue of the Pali & Burmese manuscripts of the R.A.S. scientifically arranged' - handwritten list of the manuscripts on 4 sides - their arrangement is not explained.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society - Burmese MSS' - typed list of the Burmese manuscripts created in 1956. Four pieces.
• 'Singhalese MSS. Royal Asiatic Society Hand List 1956' - a photocopy of the original list with handwritten annotations detailing the form of the manuscript, 3 pieces.
• 'Morris Collection Bought 1896, Pali, Sinhalese and Burmese Mss, List copied from JRAS. 1896, pp. 212-214' photocopy of journal article list pasted on to foolscap paper with some handwritten annotations, 2 pieces.
• 'Survey of the Pali manuscript collection, Royal Asiatic Society' - a list of the Pali manuscripts created by Jacqueline Filliozat from 1993-1996, 39 pages.

Electronic documents - archival version were created in 2024:

• 'Royal Asiatic Society - BURMESE MSS – Hand list made 1956' - list of the Burmese manuscripts, first created in 2010.

Catalogues and handlists for manuscripts in Southeast Asian languages and scripts notably Thai, Javanese and Malay:

• 'List of Raffles; Javanese MSS. in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, London' created by R.O. Winstedt and P. Voorhoeve in 1950 - handwritten list of the Javanese manuscripts donated to the Society by Sir Stamford Raffles, listing 48 manuscripts.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: Raffles's Javanese MSS. Hand List 1956' - typed list with handwritten annotations, 4 pieces.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: Siamese MSS. Hand List 1956' - typed list with handwritten annotations, 3 pieces.
• 'List of the Malay Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, London' compiled by P. Voorhoeve. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Parts 1&2, April 1963. Printed with handwritten annotations.
• List of manuscripts in Balinese, Madurese, Sundanese, Javanese and Old Javanese, 33 pieces, and further list of manuscripts in Malay and Mawken, 77 pieces, prepared by M.C. Ricklefs. With the lists is a letter from M.C. Ricklefs. Department of History, SOAS, to Simon Digby, Honorary Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society to send the list and to inform of his intention that they will become part of a union catalogue for such manuscripts in British libraries which he is compiling with P. Voorhoeve. The letter is dated 6 October 1972.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society, Thai Manuscripts' - computer printed list of the Thai manuscripts with accompanying copy of an email from Jana Igunma, British Library, to Kathy Lazenblatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the list and comment on some manuscripts of special interest. 4 pieces in total, the email is dated 24 January 2014.

Catalogues and handlists for manuscripts in the Sino-Tibetan group of languages:

• 'Four Tibetan Mongolian Mss. given to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Rev'd Robert Yuille - as identified and numbered by Professor Charles Bawden in March 1978' - typed list of the manuscripts, 1 piece.

Electronic document - archival document created in 2024.

• 'CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS' - box list for the Chinese manuscripts in the Society's collections, first created in 2008.

Catalogues and handlists for the archives within the Society's collections. These are:

General Archival Lists

• A Catalogue of the English Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1833. - A handwritten bound volume detailing English manuscripts concerning Asian topics sent to the Society in its early years. There is an index at the front followed by a summary for each manuscript listed. Those that are still in the Society's collections have become part of the archives. Quarter bound with green leather and marbled board.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society' - summary lists of many of the Personal Papers and Special collection material in the Society's collection. Typed, 2 pieces, foolscap paper.
• 'Presentations' - summary list of mainly archival material. Typed, 2 pieces, foolscap paper.
• A list of the archival material thought to be worthy of closer attention during a survey conducted by John Payne in 1993. With the list is a letter from John Payne to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society explaining his findings. Typed, 6 pieces.
• 'List of Documents - Box "A"' - list of the items kept within one of the boxes which historically had been considered archival material. Computer printed, 7 pieces, dated 13 July 2005.
• 'Archival Material' - a list of institutional records kept within the archives and the type of material. Typed,3 pieces, c.1990s.
• 'RAS Archives Assorted numbered letters and papers' - short list of individual archival items and their location. Typed, 3 pieces. c.1990s.
• 'Documents in the Catalogues and Handlists Box 17/1/2007' - two versions, one listing in numerical order and the other according to types of material. The majority of material in the box was archival. Computer printed, 6 and 7 pieces.
• 'Catalogue and Handlists Box: Captain Newbold Papers' - list giving details of the Newbold papers to be found within the Catalogues and Handlists box. Computer printed, 2 pieces.
• 'Papers possibly read before the RAS in the 1840s and other documents of interest' - list of archival documents, 3 pieces, computer printed.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Archives' - detailed list of the archives in the Society as known at the time and their location in the Society's library. This list was compiled by Simon Fenwick, an external assessor, in 2007. Computer printed, 11 pieces.
• 'Summary list of RAS papers which need to be listed' - summary of some of the papers of the Collection. Computer printed, 2 pieces.
• 'Manuscript “statistical survey” volumes etc at the Royal Asiatic Society' - list of volumes created by Francis Buchanan Hamilton, Sir Henry Miers Elliot, and Elliot & Hutchinson. Created in 2012 (Archival electronic document created in 2024).

Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

• 'Royal Asiatic Society: The Brian Hodgson Papers' - a summary list of the collections created by David Waterhouse in 2002. (Archival electronic document created in 2024)
• 'Inventory of Hodgson's private papers at the Royal Asiatic Society, London' - a more detailed list of the papers held at the Society, created by Ramesh Dhungel in 2008. Computer printed, 39 pages.

Papers of William Claxton Peppé

• 'Preliminary handlist of transcripts of the William Claxton Peppé correspondence from the papers of Neil Peppé, Esq., prepared by Charles Allen with additions by Kathy Lazenbatt', Royal Asiatic Society Librarian. Detailed list including some transcriptions of correspondence created in 2008. (Archival electronic document created in 2024).

Papers of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

• 'Sir Henry Rawlinson's letters to his sister Miss Maria Rawlinson, later Mrs Brooke Smith' - typed list given date and location where the letters were written. 3 pieces, foolscap.
• 'Henry C. Rawlinson Letter in the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London; process of deciphering Old Persian cuneiform from Bisitun Inscriptions in Iran' - list of the letters associated with this. Computer printed, 3 pieces.
• 'Rawlinson Box 1: 13 packets' - table of the packets and contents. Computer printed, 3 pieces.
• 'Items in Box I as at June 2010'; 'Items in Box II as at June 2010'; 'Items in Box III as at June 2010'; 'Items in Box IV as at June 2010'; and 'Items in Box V as at June 2010' - detailed lists prepared by Roger Parson, RAS Volunteer in 2010. (Archival electronic document created in 2024).

Catalogues and handlists for the artworks in the Collections of the Society. These are:

• 'Pictures and Busts etc. at the Royal Asiatic Society' - typed catalogues with handwritten annotations and insertion. There are three copies, each bound with ribbon and two still having brown front and back paper covers. One of these is labelled Library copy, the other Mr Foster. W. Foster prepared these lists and subsequently wrote an article about the collections for the Journal of the Society. These give descriptive listings of the artworks of the collections in the 1920s.
• 'Index to List of Pictures, Prints, Busts, & other sculptures' - two copies of alphabetical lists of the artworks in the collections. One list is handwritten on lined foolscap paper, the other is handwritten on individual labels which have been pasted into an unlined notebook. These presumably accompany the above catalogues.
• 'The Pictures of the Royal Asiatic Society' by W. Foster. Offprints from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 1924. Two copies with some annotations.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: List of prints, drawings and photographs kept in the Library' - typed list on foolscap paper, undated
• Artworks on view in the Society's premises at Stephenson Way. Information sheets produced c.2012. Computer printed.

Catalogues and handlists for the photographs in the Society's collections. Electronic documents were converted to archival documents in 2024.

• 'List of the Photographs and Lantern Slides, the property of the Society unless otherwise stated' - 2 sets of typed lists, each five pieces and housed within paper folders, undated.
• 'Photographs and Slides in cupboard behind Secretary's Desk' - handwritten list, 1 piece, undated.
• 'Lantern Slides from Newton' - handwritten list, 1 piece, undated.
• 'Abbreviated List of Photographic Material in the Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society' - typed list, 4 pieces, undated.
• 'China Boxes including Japan, Macao, Hong Kong, Manila' - photocopy of handwritten index cards, 4 pieces, undated.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Library Photographic material' - summary of the types of material by format. Typed, 1 piece, undated.
• 'Photographic prints from Sir Aurel Stein's negatives, mostly used as illustration in his books and reports; presented to the Royal Asiatic Society, September 1949' - list of the number of each print connected with each publication prepared by Fred H. Andrews. Typed list, 1 piece, undated.
• 'List of photographs of the ruins of Ani at one time capital of the former Kingdom of Armenia' (Photo. 53), photocopy of the original lists in French and German with computer printed English translation, 10 pieces, undated.

Electronic documents

• 'Photo 1' - list of the photographs comprising the collection Photo.1, Album of views of Tanjong Pagar Docks, Singapore. Document first created 2006.
• 'RAS PHOTOGRAPH CATALOGUE - summary' - list of the photographic collections in the Society, first created in 2006 and updated to 2020.
• 'Glass Slide.02 – (Ashkabad, Constantinople, Samarkand, Turkestan and Turcomen) or Russian Central Asia, Caucasus, Persia and Ottoman Territories' presented to the Society by the widow of Dr. K. Blond in December 1964 with some books from his possessions. List of the slides, document first created in 2019.
• 'Glass Slides.09 - Southern Tibet, 1938-39. From the Collection of Lt. Col. Fleming Mackenzie', donated by his daughter, Mrs Ann O’Neill in 2022. List first created in 2022

Catalogues and handlists for the maps in the Society's collections. The digital documents were created as archival documents in 2024.

• Card catalogue - handwritten descriptions of the maps on index cards.

Electronic Documents

• 'Maps list with dimensions highlighted' - first created in 2019 and modified in 2021. Excel document.
• 'Philip Jagessar map List' - first created in 2021. Philip Jagessar, as a postdoctoral researcher, researched and listed the Society's map collection. Excel document.
• 'Maps of Arabia in the Royal Asiatic Society collections' - first created in 2021, pdf document.

Catalogues and Handlists for coins and other objects within the Society's collections. Digital documents were created as archival documents in 2024.

• 'List of Coins in the R.A.S. Cabinet', a list and report compiled by Oliver Codrington during his time as Honorary Librarian of the Society (1891-1919). The list is dated 1917. Handwritten in a lined notebook with brown paper cover.
• 'Catalogue and Accession History of the Kushan Coins of the Royal Asiatic Society - Progress Report', written by Dr M. Nasim Khan, Visiting Research Fellow of the RAS, Department of Archaeology University of Peshawar, Pakistan, [2002]. A copy of this report is available in the Library office. Also kept together is a CD containing images of the coins in the RAS collections taken by Dr Khan as part of the cataloguing project. These images are also stored electronically.

Electronic Documents

• 'ACCESSION AND CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY COINS COLLECTION' - list of coins in the Society's collections, first created in 2009.
• 'POSSESSIONS OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY' - including textiles and clock. This is an incomplete list first created in
  2001.
• 'Objects on loan to the British Museum - the Society has 4 copper plate inscriptions and 1 stone inscription on long-term loan to the British Museum. There are two lists for this loan, created in 2018 and 2020.

The end-of-year accounts for the Society. Many are signed accounts. These cover the dates: 1942-1946, 1949-1951, 1953 -1960, 1962-2019.

Also with these accounts is a 'Note on the Financial Condition of the Royal Asiatic Society' a typed document, 6 pages, dated 1920.

Lease Agreements between the Howard de Walden Estates Limited and the Royal Asiatic Society for the property 56 Queen Anne Street.