Bernhard Dorn's, 'Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., K.L.S. &c., &c., deposited in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'. This is an offprint of the article published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society 1830, Volume II. The offprint contains two sketches on its inner front cover. With it is also a sheet of paper with Arabic script in ink and English annotations in pencil. There is also a letter from David [ ], Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the offprint and ask if the whereabouts of the globe is known, dated 1 November 2001.
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A partial manuscript of 'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom' by John D'Oyly, published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1833, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1833), pp. 191-252. The manuscript was submitted by Sir Alexander Johnston as the most accurate account that had been given to him and therefore worthy of publication in the Journal.
Zonder titelA manuscript of an 'Abstract Translation of an Inscription on Copper Plates found in the Fort of Miruj. Dated saka 946, or A.D. 1025' by Mr Wathen. This is annotated by H.H. Wilson. A copy of the inscription is also with the translation. This particular translation was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1836 (2), pp.258-271. An explanatory article of William Henry Wathen's work on inscriptions in India was published in JRAS 1835, pp.378-399 and includes remarks by Horace Hayman Wilson.
Zonder titel'MSS Memoir on the Length of the Illahae Guz' by Colonel John Hodgson. This includes a letter pasted into the manuscript from Hodgson to Richard Clarke concerning the manuscript, dated 21 August 1841, and also a postscript written within the volume by Henry Newnham, dated 22 May 1824. The article appeared in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society XIII (1843), pp. 42-63.
Zonder titel'An Account of Jerusalem from the Persian text of Nasir ibn Khusru's Safarnamah', translated for the late Sir H. M. Elliot, by the late Major A.R. Fuller, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1873), pp. 142-164.
Zonder titel'The Intercourse of China with Eastern Turkestan and the Adjacent Countries in the Second Century B.C.' by Thomas William Kingsmill, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society New Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr., 1882), pp. 74-104. The manuscript is written in a large soft-covered notebook and dated Shanghai, January 16 1878.
Zonder titel'Notes on the Chinese Game of Chess' by H.F.W. Holt, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society New Series, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1885), pp. 352-365. Holt was the Acting Interpreter, Agent and Assistant at the Ningpo Consulate in 1864.
Zonder titelThis series include various objects and illustrations that are connected with the Journal's production. They include items associated with the printing of the Journal.
Zonder titelThree plaster casts to accompany the article "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals" by S. H. Langdon, JRAS 1927. The three casts are of the first three seals that Langdon describes. The first is from the period of the Dungi and Isin dynasty (2409-2075). A worshipper stands with hands folded at the waist before a seated deified king, and behind him the mother goddess with both hands raised implores the aid of the divine king for her human protégé. This seal, and the second one, were owned by a Mr Casson of New College, Oxford.
The second seal is of a woman and is engraved with the design of the glyptic of the First Babylonian dynasty – that of the Amorite god Amurru and his wife Shala. The upper circle represents the sun.
The third seal is an Assyrian seal of the Late period and shows a worshipper before a deity who stands upon a mythological animal with human head, bird body and scorpion tail. This seal was owned by a Mr L.D. Grand of the Ministry of Defence in Baghdad.
Zonder titelPlaster cast coins mounted on a piece of card with the heading, "JRAS 1929, Plate VI, R. B. Whitehead. P.259." This plate accompanies the article by R.B. Whitehead, "Akbar II as Pretender: A Study in Anarchy". With the coins is a letter from Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd., dated 29th November 1933, in which they write that they have found a few plaster casts of coins and some photo negatives of Chinese and other inscriptions.
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