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- 1900 - 1956 (Creation)
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1 archival folder
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Eugène Aristide Marre was a French linguist who published several works. His Grammaire Tagalog was published by Bijdnagem in The Hague in 1901 in French.
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Isabelle Pinches was the daughter of Auguste Bertin de Veaux, a French general and politician. She married Theophilus Goldridge Pinches, Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, from 1878 to 1900, and thereafter Lecturer in Assyrian at University College, London.
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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The Papers came into the hands of A.C. Chappelow, a student of T.G. Pinches. They were presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Mrs E. Chappelow, the widow of Eric Chappelow, A.C. Chappelow's brother.
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These papers were presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Mrs E. Chappelow in July 1956.
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A handwritten manuscript of the Grammaire Tagalog by Aristide Marre with a Vocabulaire tagalog-francais-anglais by Aristide Marre and Isabelle Pinches. With these are the original housing envelope, two explanatory labels and a letter to request the publication of these works.
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The Papers were arranged into files of individual items.
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Open. Please contact the archivist using the email address given here. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID.
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Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.
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- French
- Tagalog
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The Royal Asiatic Society has, within its Library Collections, Kholâçat al Hissâb, a mathematical work byʿĀmilī, Bahāʾal-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn and translated into French by Aristide Marre.
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- Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England (Subject)
- Marre Aristide 1823-1918 linguist (Subject)
- Pinches Isabelle (Subject)
- Pinches Theophilus G. 1856-1934 (Subject)
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Archivist's note
These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.