Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1900 - 1956 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 archival folder
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Name of creator
Biographical history
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… read more
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Name of creator
Administrative history
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… read more
Repository
Archival history
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.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
These papers were presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Mrs E. Chappelow in July 1956.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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… read more
System of arrangement
The Papers were arranged into files of individual items.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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.… read more
Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Language of material
- English
- French
- Tagalog
Allied materials area
Related units of description
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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Subject access points
Name access points
- 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.