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 of… read more
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Repository
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:
- Correspondence … read more
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
These documents are open for research.
Language of material
- English
- Tibetan
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Arabic
- Sanskrit
Access points
Subject access points
Name access points
- Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Orient-Institut (Subject)
- Bailey Harold W. 1899-1996 Harold Walter (Subject)
- Yetts W. Perceval 1878-1957 (Subject)
- Thomas F. W 1867-1956 (Subject)
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