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  • 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
  • Halloween Update

    There’s a chill in the air as we enter the second half of Autumn, but the Society’s events programme is running at full steam with several events planned between October and November.…
    22 October 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, book launch, Collections, courses, Events, fellowships, iran, Journal, lectures, Malay Manuscripts, Manuscripts
  • Translating an Ottoman Railway Map

    This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who gives us an update on an interesting find he discovered within the Society’s map collections.   Among the Society’s eclectic collection of foreign…
    30 September 2021
    2023, Acquisitions, Cartography, Collections, Events, lectures, Maps, RAS Collections, RAS History, Visits
  • Oscar Eckenstein and the Richard Burton Collection

    This Thursday marked the 162nd anniversary of the birth of the mountaineer, Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9th September 1859 - 8th April 1921). Portrait of Oscar Eckenstein held in the Society’s collections…
    10 September 2021
    anniversary, Archives, book launch, Collections, Oscar Eckenstein, Richard Burton, Uzbekistan
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