Collection of Arabic and Oriental manuscripts, ca. 1799-ca. 1830.

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Collection of Arabic and Oriental manuscripts, ca. 1799-ca. 1830.

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Arabic letters, legal documents, historical or religious commentaries and devotional literature associated with American and English missionaries and scholars such as William Jenks, founder of the American Oriental Society, William Bentley, Unitarian clergyman and poet, William Bentley Fowle, Rev. Thomas Laurie, the traveller, William Jones, British orientalist, Isaac Bird and Samuel Harris, "the Bostonian." Some of these individuals visited the East and collected or copied original manuscripts which they sent to Boston for study or publication. Collection includes letters of Assad Shidiack, the Maronite apostate, documents relating to the brig Telemachus and the schooner Rajah, Bengali accounts, a letter of Herschel Borofsky "a Polish Jew in prison" (1824), a Sanscrit text recounting a military invasion of Ceylon and manuscript and printed material relating to the China trade (ca. 1821). The collection as a whole shows the important ties, commercial and intellectual, which existed between New England and the East in the early 19th century. The collection has not been fully analyzed. The Athenaeum also owns a related collection of ms. copies of the Koran, entered separately.

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Bird, Isaac, 1793-1876

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ISAAC BIRD, 1793-1876 (Y.1816) ISAAC BIRD, son of Isaac and Rhoda (Selleck) Bird, was born in Salisbury, Conn., June 19, 1793. He spent the year after graduation as a teacher in the academy in West Nottingham, Md., and in Nov., 1817, entered Andover Theol. Seminary. His three years there were passed in close companionship with his classmates, William Goodell and Daniel Temple, the associates of his future missionary life, and the three friends together offere...

Harris, Samuel, fl. 1820.

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Laurie, Thomas, 1821-1897

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Epithet: of Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x0000bb ...

Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794

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English orientalist and jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Cadell, bookseller, 1775 Jan. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270488044 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Crishna nagar", to Thomas Law in Behar, 1787 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486812 William Jones (1746-1794) was a British lawyer in India and pioneer of comparative linguistic studies. Born in London in 1746, Jones later...

Bentley, William, 1759-1819

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Epithet: Printer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x0000bd Bentley (Harvard, Class of 1777) was tutor at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Bentley, 1783-1815 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972755 Massachusetts resident (Essex County) and Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Letter, ca. 1804. (Duke University Library). Worl...

Jenks, William, 1778-1866

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William Jenks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 25, 1778. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1797, an A.M. in 1800 and an S.T.D. in 1842. He also received two degrees from Bowdoin College: an S.T.D. in 1825 and an L.L.D. in 1862. Jenks served as pastor of churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bath, Maine before joining the faculty of Bowdoin College as professor of Oriental and English literature. He later returned to Boston, where he founded a mission for seamen and took...

Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865

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Asʻad ibn Yusūf, al-Shidyak̇.

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