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Camel suckling her calf.

Title Camel suckling her calf.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark 1907,1111.136

Item type paper-cut
Vaiśravaṇa with attendants crossing the ocean.

Title Vaiśravaṇa with attendants crossing the ocean.

Material ink and colours on silk

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.45

Item type painting, banner
Stencil for a Buddha.

Title Stencil for a Buddha.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.73.2

Item type pounce
Seated Buddha

Title Seated Buddha

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.79

Item type painting
Bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi holding a Vajra.

Title Bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi holding a Vajra.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.158

Item type banner, painting
Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara.

Title Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.159

Item type banner, painting
Avalokitesvara with six arms.

Title Avalokitesvara with six arms.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.162

Item type painting, banner
Seated monk in meditation.

Title Seated monk in meditation.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.163

Item type painting
Prajapati (Brahma as Lord of Living Creatures).

Title Prajapati (Brahma as Lord of Living Creatures).

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.166

Item type painting
The Arhat Kālika with Tibetan inscription.

Title The Arhat Kālika with Tibetan inscription.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.169*

Item type painting
Avalokiteśvara seated on a lotus.

Title Avalokiteśvara seated on a lotus.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.192

Item type painting
Fragment of silk painting.

Title Fragment of silk painting.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.219.5

Item type painting, Fragment
Fragment of painting on paper showing monk with tiger and child.

Title Fragment of painting on paper showing monk…

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.221.1

Item type painting, Fragment
Fragment of painting on paper showing feet and lower legs of Lokapāla.

Title Fragment of painting on paper showing feet…

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.221.2

Item type painting, Fragment
Fragment of painting on paper showing part of a pipa floating in the sky.

Title Fragment of painting on paper showing part…

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.221.3

Item type painting, Fragment
Fragment of painting on paper showing musicians.

Title Fragment of painting on paper showing musicians.

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.221.4

Item type Fragment, painting
Vaiśravana with attendants and a donor(?).

Title Vaiśravana with attendants and a donor(?).

Material ink and colours on paper

Pressmark 1919,0101,0.245

Item type banner
Dunhuang painted banner on hemp showing Avalokitesvara

Title Dunhuang painted banner on hemp showing Avalokitesvara

Material ink and colours on hemp

Pressmark Add.Or.5225

Item type banner
no image available

Pressmark BD09464

Item type scroll
no image available

Pressmark BD09515

Item type Fragment
no image available

Pressmark BD09605

Item type Fragment
no image available

Pressmark BD10010

Item type Fragment
no image available

Pressmark BD10667

Item type scroll
no image available

Pressmark BD10668

Item type scroll

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 150 Painting 74 Textile 6 Artefact 4 Print or drawing 3 Photograph 1
scroll 63 paper fragment 47 silk fragment 18 painting 15 Fragment 12 prayer sheet 11 banner 9 woodslip 7 booklet: thread 3 painting, religious 3 paper-cut 3 pothi 3 booklet: butterfly 2 pounce 2 booklet 1 concertina 1 film negative 1 hanging scroll 1 lithograph 1 wood tablet 1
manuscript, ink on paper 127 ink and colours on paper 23 woodblock print, ink on paper 18 ink on wood 8 silk 2 colours on silk 1 film negative 1 ink and colours on hemp 1 ink and colours on leather 1 ink and colours on silk 1 ink and colours on wood 1
Illustrated 202 Buddhism 90 dated documents 16 Manicheanism 13 Prayers 12 Sponsored 12 colophons 12 Daoism 9 Astronomy and Divination 8 seal 5 Animals 4 Avalokitesvara 4 Social and Economic 3 Textile 3 Medicine 2 braid 2 Agriculture 1 Anglo-Afghan War, Second (1878-1880) 1 Apocryphal sutra 1 Blood, writing with 1 Club circular 1 Empress Wu characters 1 Kandahar 1 Literary 1 Official 1 People 1 Writing exercise 1 calligraphy 1 camels 1 donor 1 letter 1 mandala 1
Dunhuang Mogao 136 Kharakhoto 6 Endere Fort 2 Karakhoja 2 Dunhuang Limes 1 Mazar Tagh 1 Mingoi site 1 Miran Fort 1 Toyuk 1
British Library 140 British Museum 17 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften 16 National Library of China 14 Bibliothèque nationale de France 7 Princeton East Asian Library 3 Institute of Oriental Manuscripts 2 Museum of Asian Art 1 Private Collection: Sam Fogg 1 Ryukoku University Omiya Library 1

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Chinese (lang.) 104 Chinese (script) 83 not applicable 48 Tibetan (lang.) 10 Tibetan (script) 10 Brahmi (script) 4 Middle Persian (lang.) 4 Tangut (lang.) 4 Tangut (script) 4 Khotanese (lang.) 2 Manichaean (script) 2 Parthian (lang.) 2 Sogdian (lang.) 2 Bactrian (lang.) 1 English (lang.) 1 Kok Turkic (script) 1 Old Turkic (lang.) 1 Tocharian B (lang.) 1
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Non-Buddhist Documents from Dunhuang in the British Library (Boltz) 10 Catalogue des manuscrits chinois V: 4001-6040 4 Chinese Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the British Library (Giles 1957) 4 Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative (Mair 1981) 4 Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf) 3 Dunhuang Manuscripts in the BnF (Lu 1933-4) 3 The Art of Central Asia II (Whitfield) 3 Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang II (de le Vallée Poussin) 3 Catalogue des manuscrits chinois I: Pelliot chinois 2001-2500 2 Chinese Manuscript Fragments (Enoki) 2 Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang (Dalton & van Schaik) 2 Catalogue des manuscrits chinois II: Pelliot chinois 2501-3000 1 List of Manuscripts in Languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit (Barnett) 1 Medical manuscripts from Dunhuang (Wang Shumin) 1 The Diamond Sutra (Lapiz Lazuli Texts) 1 The Dunhuang Chinese Sky (Bonnet-Bidaud et al 2009) 1 The Dunhuang Star Chart (Or.8210/S.3326) 1 Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang I (de le Vallée Poussin) 1

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