Arquivo AC - Papers of Rev Dr Adam Clarke

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

GB 891 AC

Título

Papers of Rev Dr Adam Clarke

Data(s)

  • 1828 - 1836 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

2 items handwritten

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

História biográfica

Adam Clarke was a Wesleyan minister and theologian, serving three times as the President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Born in Ireland, he became a Methodist in 1778 and a minister in 1782, firstly in Bradford (Wiltshire). He also served in the Channel Islands, Cornwall, Ireland, rural Lancashire, and the Shetlands (where he was the effective planter of Methodism in the 1820s). He was a keen theologian with progressive views linking rationalism with spirituality. As a scholar, he studied a variety of subjects including folk tales, and romances, as well as Persian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Hindu, Coptic and Sanskrit texts, and subjects including alchemy and the occult, witchcraft, medical curiosities, astronomy, mineralogy, and conchology, while maintaining an overriding interest in the classics and the scriptures. He was involved in the conversion of 2 Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka.

He was elected a member of several learned including the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal Irish Academy, the Geological Society of London, the American Historical Institute, and was a founder member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Clarke died from an attack of cholera on 26 August 1832.

História do arquivo

These papers were created by Dr Adam Clarke.

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

The Translation of the history of the Dharmapala jataka was presented to the Royal Asiatic Society on 29 July 1828. The translation from the [Sambaive] jataka was presented to the Society by Clarke's son in February 1836.

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

The papers consist of two translations from Buddhist paintings. These are:

  • Translation of the History of the Dharmapala Jataka which is painted in the Kaluwella Temple, 3 pages with descriptive note on the 4th.
  • Translation of the [Sambaive] Jataka or the history of the "King Dannanjaya Cooraw-wa", also painted in the Kaluwella Temple, 7 pages with descriptive note on the 8th.

Avaliação, seleção e eliminação

Incorporações

Sistema de arranjo

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

Open. Please contact the archivist. Details can be found here : https://royalasiaticarchives.org/. 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.

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

  • inglês

Script do material

    Notas ao idioma e script

    Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

    Instrumentos de descrição

    Zona de documentação associada

    Existência e localização de originais

    Existência e localização de cópias

    Unidades de descrição relacionadas

    Details concerning the papers coming into the Royal Asiatic Society can be found in the Society's Register of Communications, 1823-1846, p.58.

    Our collections hold some books related to Dr Adam Clarke. Details can be found in our Library Catalogue: https://ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk/.

    Descrições relacionadas

    Zona das notas

    Identificador(es) alternativo(s)

    Pontos de acesso

    Pontos de acesso - Assuntos

    Pontos de acesso - Nomes

    Pontos de acesso de género

    Zona do controlo da descrição

    Identificador da descrição

    gb891-ac

    Identificador da instituição

    Regras ou convenções utilizadas

    Estatuto

    Nível de detalhe

    Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação

    Línguas e escritas

      Script(s)

        Fontes

        Nota do arquivista

        These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2022.

        Área de ingresso