Tag / Malay Manuscripts
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New additions to the Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that the Society recently added eighteen manuscripts to its Digital Library. They include eleven manuscripts from the Malay collections, and a further seven from the Javanese collections.…
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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
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…
More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
We are delighted to announce that two more manuscripts from the Society’s collection have been digitized, and are now available to view in their entirety on the RAS Digital Library. The first…
The Great Seal of Aceh
Last night, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Library, on “The Great Seal of Aceh”. Before moving…
Tales from the Malay World
This week, RAS Director, Alison Ohta, provides the blog: On the 18th August 2017, an exhibition of Malay manuscripts and printed books entitled ‘Tales from the Malay World’ opened at the National…
