Description: Thin black softcover notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.
Contents: Professor Ferdinand Justi's Essay "On the Life and Legend of Zoroaster"
Inserts: A folio serving an indexical purpose to Denkart, and a further folio with German-English translation.
Two colour photographs of Professor Francis Robinson, former RAS President, posing in front of the Society's Qajar painting depicting two girls (Head Cat. No. 01.002). Includes a contact sheet of other photographs from the photoshoot, taken on 4 July 2006 by Robert Workman. Photographs taken to marked his retirement as President of the Society in June 2006.
B&W print of the painting of Professor Horace Hayman Wilson.
Diploma of Honorary Membership for Louis Massignon, D. Litt Professeur au College de France, dated 14 June 1927. With pencil mark-ups indicating the signatures of the President, Director and Secretary, again probably used as a template for designing a new version.
Diploma of Honorary Fellowship for Professor M. C. Subhadradis Diskul (elected in 1985).
Diploma of Honorary Membership for Professor Nikolaus Rhodokanakis, dated 8 May 1923. With mark-ups in pencil, probably used as a template when a new design was proposed at a later date.
Professor E.H.S. Simmonds as President of the Royal Asiatic Society receiving guests at a dinner in Fishmonger's Hall, City of London, 3 photos with accompanying label.
A party of Provincial Governors from Thailand spent four weeks in Britain as the guests of the Foreign Office and under arrangements made by the Central Office of Information.
The photographs shows the visitors during their tour of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with Professor E.H.S. Simmonds, looking at Thai manuscripts.
The party comprises; Mom Chao Thongkumplew Thong Yai, Governor of Chandaburi; Nai Phol Vongsarote, Governor of Nakornprathom; Nai San Ekmahachai, Governor of Nakornsrithamaraj; Nai Jad Urasyanandha, Governor of Petburi; Police Major-General Samart Vayavananta, Governor of Prachinburi; Nai Supat Wongvatana, Governor of Sakol Nakhorn.
Professor Tim Williams received his Medal on 8 December 2022. The associated material is:
- Publicity Poster for the conferment of the medal and Williams' lecture, 'Along the Silk Roads of Central Asia', 8 December 2022.
Programme for the "Xème Conference Internationale des Etudes Ethiopiennes" held at the Palais de l'UNESCO, Paris, from 23-26 August 1988. The programme lists the organising Committee, the daily itinerary, and the speakers and the titles of their papers at each of the sessions. There are some handwritten annotations.
International Conference of Ethiopian Studies