Tag / Collections
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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.…
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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…
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Reflecting on 2021
For the last blog post of 2021, we wanted to reflect on some of the work that has taken place across the Society over the last year. Before we mention these achievements,… -
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From The Sinbad Voyage to Arabic Library Cataloguing: The Gerald Tibbetts Collection
The Society is delighted to have received a small collection of personal papers, maps, and articles pertaining to Gerald Tibbetts (1926-1999), known as a scholar of the early modern Arab world and…
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Enjoying the Society’s Online Collections
This blog post is by the Society’s Librarian, Edward Weech. The current public health emergency means that on-site services at the RAS, like most other cultural and educational organizations, remain temporarily suspended.…
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Conserving and Celebrating our Burmese Collections
Earlier this week, the Society hosted a small event to commemorate the conservation of one of its manuscripts. This is a Kammavācā, a Pali term which means “an assemblage of passages from…
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Burmese manuscript conservation success
We are delighted to announce that the project to conserve one of the Society’s Burmese manuscripts, and its rare woven braid (sazigyo), was recently completed. The conservation of these precious objects was…
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On the Silk Road in London
The Society held its first summer course on the ‘Silk Road’ from the 8th – 11th July. We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk…
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RAS launches new Koha library catalogue
Digital technologies have become much more widespread in the last decade, with most of the population enjoying access to the internet at home or on their smartphones. This is the case not…
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Launch event marks RAS Digital Library
Last night (Thursday 5 April) the Society held an event to launch its new Digital Library, which you can find online here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/. The launch event was an important opportunity to reflect…
