Sanskrit manuscripts collected by Horace Hayman Wilson 15th-19th century

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Sanskrit manuscripts collected by Horace Hayman Wilson 15th-19th century

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb3105-mss.wilson1-573;bodleysansk.1

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san,

urd,

pli,

mya,

ben,

hin,

University of Oxford, Department of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6298688

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Wilson, H.H. (Horace Hayman), 1786-1860

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1808-1833 Bengal Medical Service; 1832-1860 Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford; 1836-1860 Librarian to the East India Company and the India Office. Epithet: orientalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000122 ...

Horace Hayman Wilson

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Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860) went to India as a surgeon in the East India Company's service in 1808, but soon turned his attention to the language and literature of that country. In 1819 he published the first Sanskrit-English Dictionary. He was elected first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1832. Wilson also became Librarian of the East India Company, and, in 1837, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society. See the Dictionary of National Biography for details. From the guide...