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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 -
Next Collections Evening 23 March
On Thursday 23 March, the Society will hold its next Collections Evening. In addition to giving people a chance to see some of our collections at close hand, Collections Evenings show how…
10 March 2023 -
New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
17 February 2023 -
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 -
Bayly Prize and Biblical Archaeology
Yesterday evening, Thursday 19 January, the Society was delighted to host the prize giving for the 2022 Bayly Prize. The prize was initiated in 2018 to mark the outstanding contribution of Professor…
20 January 2023 -
Intertextual and Material Culture: Researching the RAS Collections
This week’s blog post is by Ruth Westoby. Handwritten on paper in Sanskrit, using devanāgarī script, is a manuscript of the Śārṅgadharapaddhati which forms part of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Tod collection.…
16 December 2022 -
William Jones
William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl…
12 December 2022 -
A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod
We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history…
2 December 2022 -
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 -
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
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