Series RAS JOUR/9 - Transliteration Schemes

Identity area

Reference code

GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/9

Title

Transliteration Schemes

Date(s)

  • 20th Oct 1937 - 10th Nov 1939 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

1 folder handwritten, typed and printed

Context area

Name of creator

(1823-)

Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

Name of creator

Name of creator

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Correspondence concerning the transliteration of scripts for use in the Journal. During the 1930s there was concern regarding the printing of non-Latin alphabet scripts. This generated correspondence and administrative documents:

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

These documents are open for research.

Language of material

  • English
  • Tibetan
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
  • Arabic
  • Sanskrit

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