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GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/2
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Notebook on Tibetan Vocabulary and Partial Diary of Journey to Lhasa
Date(s)
- [1810-1817] (Création/Production)
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1 notebook and 8 loose sheets
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Notebook containing notes on Tibetan vocabulary. Also some Latin notes and notes on events and people in China; grammar notes; English lists of words. In the back of the book is a partial journal of his time in Tibet - mostly the beginning of the journey and includes an entry about meeting the Dalai Lama "This day I saluted the Grand Lama!! Beautiful Youth. Face poetically affecting. Could have wept. Very happy to have seen him & his blessed smile. hope often to see him again". Large, half-calf notebook, warped, handwritten in pencil and ink.
Inserted into the notebook:
- Note to and from Thomas Beale concerning whether Beale was expecting the Hoopoo, handwritten, undated
- Vocabulary list 4 sheets of Chinese writing including two copies of a contract between Manning and Gao Hengxin for 1000 yuan, dated 20 January 1815
- "Recipe for [Hang yummtoy] or Almond Syrup", Letter from Sian Seng.
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Language of material
- anglais
- tibétain
- chinois
- latin