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<p>Contains works called variously "Outsider art", "Art brut", etc.</p>

Adamson Collection

approximately 5,000 (?) items : paintings and drawings

Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

Multiple manuscript parts collected in one volume.; Material: paper

Wellcome Malay 2

Collection of 206 prescriptions with table of contents, magical charms, folk medicine and nursery rhymes.

Paper.; Material: paper; 54 folios. The following folios are blank: 31; 32v; 33v; 34; 38v; 39; 40v; 41; 42r-44v; and 45v-48r. 89 folios are originally numbered in Hebrew letters but an indefinite number following folios 25v; 31v; and 34v have been torn out.; paperSheet dimensions: diameter 9.5 cm, length 15.5 cm

Wellcome MS Hebrew A19

Incomplete text in Middle Malay of a series of invocations of saints and angels, whose places of residence and names are mentioned, asking them for protection against enemies. Written in rencong script on eigth strips of bamboo.

Material: paper; 8 strips of bamboo; leaf dimensions: width 57 cm, height 2.1 cm; leaf dimensions: width 48.5 cm, height 2.1 cm; leaf dimensions: width 49.8 cm, height 1.8 cm; leaf dimensions: width 39 cm, height 2.2 cm; leaf dimensions: width 45.5 cm, height 2.3 cm; leaf dimensions: width 41 cm, height 2.8 cm; leaf dimensions: width 39.3 cm, height 2.5 cm; leaf dimensions: width 45.8 cm, height 2.7 cm

Wellcome Malay 10

Catalogues of Malayan Trees, Fruits, Animals.

Material: paper; 136 pp.; leaf dimensions: width 18 cm, height 22 cm

Wellcome Malay 4

Contains notes on Malay divination and a description of the Minangkabau legal system. There are two manuscripts: one in Arabic script; the second is a romanization of the first.

Two manuscripts collected in one volume.; Material: paper

Wellcome Malay 1

Catalogues of Malayan plants, fish, animals and snakes

Wellcome Malay 7

Fragments, mainly on mysticism and divination.

Javanese paper.; Material: paper; 24 ff.; dimensions: diameter 20 cm, length 13 cm

Wellcome Javanese 10

Catalogues of Malayan trees, roots, herbs, fish, snakes and frogs

Wellcome Malay 5

Catalogues of Malayan plants, birds and snakes.

Eight manuscripts collected in one volume.; Material: paper

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Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

Wellcome Malay 2

Wellcome MS Hebrew A19

Wellcome Malay 10

Wellcome Malay 4

Wellcome Malay 1

Wellcome Malay 7

Wellcome Javanese 10

Wellcome Malay 5

Wellcome Malay 8

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Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

Wellcome Malay 2

Wellcome MS Hebrew A19

Wellcome Malay 10

Wellcome Malay 4

Wellcome Malay 1

Wellcome Malay 7

Wellcome Javanese 10

Wellcome Malay 5

Wellcome Malay 8

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