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  • An Armenian Manuscript / Happy Easter from the RAS!

    To celebrate Easter we are taking a look at an item from the collections: a 13th-Century Armenian biblical manuscript. Dated 1246, the manuscript contains the 14 Epistles of St Paul prefaced by…

    5 April 2023
    About the Society, Collections
  • Working with the Royal Asiatic Society’s Collections

    Yesterday evening (Thursday 23rd March) we held a Collections Evening. This is one of the highlights of the year for the Collections Team, librarian, Edward Weech, and myself, Nancy Charley, archivist. The…

    24 March 2023
    2023, About the Society, Archives Hub, Archivist, Cataloguing, Collections, collections evening, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • New Digitization, and a Festschrift for Dr Barbara Brend

    We are delighted to announce that two manuscripts have been added to the Society’s online collections and can now be read in full on our Digital Library. These are a Bustan of…

    10 February 2023
    Collections, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorised
  • A Qurʾan manuscript with full Malay translation

    We are pleased to introduce this week’s blog by Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, a member of RAS Council.  The Royal Asiatic Society holds a Qurʾan manuscript (Arabic 4), which is of exceptional…

    25 November 2022
    Book Launches, Collections, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning – Out Now!

    This week’s blog post is by RAS Librarian Edward Weech. Many long-time readers of the Society’s blog will remember that, in 2015, the RAS acquired the archive of Thomas Manning (1772-1840). At…

    18 November 2022
    China, Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Digitization Sponsorship for RAS Bicentenary

    Over the past several years, the Society has digitized some of the most important parts of its collection, and has made digital facsimiles of manuscripts, archives, and artworks freely available via the…

    30 September 2022
    Collections, Digital Library, RAS Collections
  • Collections News and William Alexander

    Collections’ News Continuing from last week’s blog post the Archivist is pleased to report that the Catalogue for the records created in producing the Society’s Journal has now gone online at Archives…

    22 July 2022
    Collections
  • Reading Manuscript Paintings in the Kulliyat of Nava’i, and RAS AGM 2022

    Dr Funda San (Yildiz Technical University) is currently exploring the Society’s collection of Turkish manuscripts, as part of a research project supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey).…

    27 May 2022
    Anniversary General Meeting, Collections, Manuscripts, RAS Collections
  • James Tod and the ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han’

      This Thursday (18th November) marked the anniversary of the death of the Oriental Scholar, Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 - 18 November 1835). Painting of Lt. Col James Tod from,…
    19 November 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, anniversary, book launch, Collections, James Tod, Manuscripts, Paintings and Drawings
  • Cataloguing the Collections

    Cataloguing Update: Progress is being made on the cataloguing of collections material in the institutional archive with descriptions now ready to be uploaded onto Archives Hub. I have discovered several interesting finds…
    12 November 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, About the Society, Archives, Bayly Prize, Cataloguing, Collections
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