Fondo MJR - Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

GB 891 MJR

Título

Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Fecha(s)

  • 1982 (Creación)
  • 1825 - 1887 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Fondo

Volumen y soporte

1 archival box

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1804-1894)

Historia biográfica

Michael John Rowlandson was born in 1804, in Hungerford, Berkshire, his father being the Vicar of Warminster. He joined the Indian army as a cadet in 1820, becoming a lieutenant in 1821 and a major in 1824. He served at the College of Fort St. George asread more

Institución archivística

Historia archivística

The papers were the private documents of Rowlandson and seem to have been kept within the family until their donation to the Royal Asiatic Society in 1982.

Origen del ingreso o transferencia

The Papers were donated by Muriel Turner, great-granddaughter of Rowlandson, in 1982.

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

This material contains 4 handwritten notebooks and a letter concerning their donation.

Sistema de arreglo

Due to the small size of the Collection it was catalogued as one series.

Área de condiciones de acceso y uso

Condiciones de acceso

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

Condiciones

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.

Idioma del material

  • árabe
  • inglés
  • hindi
  • persa

Área de materiales relacionados

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

Within the RAS Collections we also have:

  • Tohfut-ul-mujahideen : an historical work in the Arabic language / translated into English by M.J. Rowlandson. (1833)
  • An analysis of Arabic quotations which occur in the Gulistan of Muslih-ud-Deen Sheikh Sadi, as
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Área de control de la descripción

Identificador de la descripción

gb891-mjr

Nota del archivista

The Papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2018.