Arquivo MJR - Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

GB 891 MJR

Título

Papers of Michael John Rowlandson

Data(s)

  • 1982 (Produção)
  • 1825 - 1887 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

1 archival box

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

(1804-1894)

História 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

História do arquivo

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.

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

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

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

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

Sistema de arranjo

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

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

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

Condiçoes de reprodução

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 do material

  • árabe
  • inglês
  • híndi
  • persa

Zona de documentação associada

Unidades de descrição 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
  • read more

Pontos de acesso

Pontos de acesso - Locais

Zona do controlo da descrição

Identificador da descrição

gb891-mjr

Nota do arquivista

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