Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- [1900 - 1923] (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
12 notebooks handwritten
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
The author of these notebooks is unknown. They contain no identifying material and the handwriting has not been identified.
Histoire archivistique
It is unknown to whom these notebooks belonged.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
It is unknown how these notebooks came into the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society. Some of the notebooks had been housed with the manuscript material of George Edward Fryer, but they do not belong to him. They are of a later date.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Twelve notebooks containing the author's notes on India, its religions and inscriptions, mainly extracts from, and comments upon, published authors' works.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The material was divided according to the titles of the volumes thus:
- SC2/1 - Hindu and Early Indian
- SC2/2 - Indian Mahommedan
- SC2/3 - Islamic
- SC2/4 - Inscriptions
- SC2/5 - Miscellaneous
- SC2/6 - Buddhism
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
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
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
- anglais
Script of material
Language and script notes
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Finding aids
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Zone des notes
Note
It would appear these notebooks were once part of a larger collection as not all volumes are present in particular sets.
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Hume Robert Ernest 1877-1948 (Sujet)
Mots-clés - Genre
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Rules and/or conventions used
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Dates of creation revision deletion
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Archivist's note
This material was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.