Fonds MJR - Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Zone d'identification

Cote

GB 891 MJR

Titre

Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Date(s)

  • 1982 (Création/Production)
  • 1825 - 1887 (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Fonds

Étendue matérielle et support

1 archival box

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(1804-1894)

Notice biographique

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

Histoire archivistique

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.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

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

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

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

Mode de classement

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

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.read more

Conditions de 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.

Langue des documents

  • arabe
  • anglais
  • hindi
  • persan

Zone des sources complémentaires

Unités de description associées

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
  • read more

Mots-clés

Mots-clés - Lieux

Zone du contrôle de la description

Identifiant de la description

gb891-mjr

Note de l'archiviste

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