The British Library's online catalogue Explore the British Library includes all books and periodicals in the collection. The Asian and African Studies blog contains short research articles on selected items from Myanmar. All of these manuscripts are fully digitised and searchable via Explore Archives and Manuscripts.
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For a full list see Digital access to Burmese manuscripts.įurther digitised material can also be found in the Endangered Archives Programme, which includes the Fragile Palm Leaves project, the Pa'O manuscripts project, as well as the Ahom manuscripts project and the Mizoram records project. Consult the Myanmar (Burma) Help Guide to find material.Ħ0 manuscripts in Burmese, Arakanese, Shan, Mon and Pyu have been digitised so far. Published catalogues and handlists include the full collection. The British Library's online catalogue Explore Archives and Manuscripts includes a large part of the Myanmar (Burma) manuscript collection. There is an important collection of books, serials and ephemera from the 1980s relating to the Pro-Democracy Movement. The British Library also holds printed books in Pali and in other languages of Myanmar including Shan, Karen, Mon, Kachin and Chin.
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The printed book collection includes rare examples of early Burmese printing, many acquired under the Press and Registration Books Act from 1867 through to the 1930s.
Or 4762 Scenes from the life of the Buddha, Burmese, parabaik, 19th century.Or 14297 & Or 14298 Scenes from the life of the Buddha, Burmese, parabaik, mid-19th century.Or 14004 Illustrated Buddhist cosmology manuscript, Burmese, parabaik, 19th century.Maunggan gold plates, one of the oldest Buddhist texts from Southeast Asia, Pali in Pyu script, gold leaf, 5th century.the Royal Mandalay collection acquired in 1886.the Sir Arthur Phayre collection (Or.3403-3480) acquired in 1886, collected and used by Phayre for his History of Burma (London 1883).the John Murray collection (Add.12237-12260), acquired in 1842, in which there are several manuscripts from Arakan dating from the 1740s.
The collection is particularly strong in historical, legal and grammatical texts, and in illustrated material.
As well as Burmese works, there are many Pali canonical texts and also works written in Arakanese, Shan and Mon. Most are written on palm leaf, but there are also many paper folding books ( parabaik), and texts written on diverse materials such as gold, silver, copper and ivory sheets in the shape of palm leaves. The British Library holds around 1,800 manuscripts from Myanmar.
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