Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founding father of the British Museum and its Library, which later became the British Library. Sloane’s vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals, ethnographic items, and books included four thousand manuscripts, twelve of which were from Southe...
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
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| description | Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founding father of the British Museum and its Library, which later became the British Library. Sloane’s vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals, ethnographic items, and books included four thousand manuscripts, twelve of which were from Southeast Asia. These twelve Southeast Asian manuscripts, including eight from the Indonesian archipelago, are described in detail here. Although Sloane is not known to have had personal connections with Southeast Asia or any particular interest in the region, this small collection nonetheless encompasses an exceptionally wide range of the languages, scripts, writing supports and books formats found in the region, manifest in some of the earliest manuscripts known in certain genres. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5a42201e640451b911985875e8fcd612023-07-06T07:59:07ZengUniversitas Indonesia, Faculty of HumanitiesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992019-04-01201153110.17510/wacana.v20i1.732Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British LibraryAnnabel Teh Gallop0British Library, LondonSir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founding father of the British Museum and its Library, which later became the British Library. Sloane’s vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals, ethnographic items, and books included four thousand manuscripts, twelve of which were from Southeast Asia. These twelve Southeast Asian manuscripts, including eight from the Indonesian archipelago, are described in detail here. Although Sloane is not known to have had personal connections with Southeast Asia or any particular interest in the region, this small collection nonetheless encompasses an exceptionally wide range of the languages, scripts, writing supports and books formats found in the region, manifest in some of the earliest manuscripts known in certain genres.https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol20/iss1/2/sir hans sloanebritish librarybritish museumsoutheast asiamanuscriptsdocumentsarabicjavanesemalay. |
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| title | Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library |
| title_full | Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library |
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| title_short | Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library |
| title_sort | southeast asian manuscripts from the collection of sir hans sloane in the british library |
| topic | sir hans sloane british library british museum southeast asia manuscripts documents arabic javanese malay. |
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