Various Documents Chiefly Relating to Herman Daendels, and other Javanese Officials and Matters
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p. i: Table of Contents (in pencil). 1, pp. 3-18: Batavia, 31 July 1809. Translation into very bad English of part of a state paper by Gov(r) Gen(l) Daendels, of which another and rather better translation is given in 4 infra, q.v. The present extract corresponds with the last part of that sec...
Periodique Bespiegeling over de Defensie van Batavia. Periodical Reflections on the defense of Batavia
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pp. 1-76: Periodique Bespiegeling over de Defensie van. Batavia Periodical Reflections on the defense of Batavia. Copy. p. 4: Table of Contents. (a) pp. 5-7: Tana [=Tanah] Abang, August 1801. Letter from the author (Van Boeckholtz, presumably the author of 16 supra, q. v.] to Gov(r) Gen(l) van...
p. i: Table of Contents. 1, pp. 1-34 : Names of the Native Servants employed in the Country Villages of Ceylon. Explanations of certain names or titles of native officials, castes, various branches of revenue, &c., in Ceylon, giving thereby a fairly detailed account of the Sinhalese caste...
p. i: Samarang [=Samarang] & N.E. Coast. 1, pp. 1-181: Samarang, 26 October 1761. Memorandum Drawn on behalf of the Right Honorable Willem Hendrik van Ossenberg Governor General in Councel of the Dutch Settlements in India, and also of the Northeast Coast of Java; delivered to his Excellen...
Various Manuscripts Relating to Historical Accounts of Ceylon, Java, Etc.
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1, pp. i, 1-55: The History of the earliest Discovery & Population of the Island of Ceylon & of the origin of the Emperors & Kings there taken from the ancient Ceylonese chronicles - MS. Begins (p. 1): "Upwards of 500 years before the Birth of our Saviour, there reigned in India a Pr...
Several Short Accounts of Different States of Rajputana, Their History, Statistics, and General Information Relating to them
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pp. 1-180: Copies of several short accounts of different states of Rajputana, their history, statistics, and general information relating to them, written by Capt(n) James Tod in 1815-16. They comprise the following chapters :- (1) pp. 1-45: Jeipoor [=Jaipur] or Dhoondar [=Dhūndhār], including...
p. 1: Table of Contents. 1, pp. 3-21 : Antiquities of Java and Bali. Comprising:- (a) pp. 7-18: On the Existence of the Hindu Religion on the Island of Bali. Copy. By John Crawfurd. This essay was printed in Asiatick Researches (1820). Vol. XIII, pp. 128 seqq., with verbal differences, some om...
List of Books & Papers Registers of the Dutch affairs in Java & the Eastern Islands
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p. i: Lists of Books & Papers Registers of the Dutch affairs in Java &: the Eastern Islands-(found on inspection of the archives of the former Governments). 1, pp. 1-3: General List of the general Registers of such book and papers as have been found on an inspection of the archives of ...
Now Mss Eur Mack Private 85, 3. The original No: 84, styled in the MS. Catalogue Abridged history of Java 1813, has been bound up with 85 infra, of which it now forms part 3, q.v.
Manuscripts on the Malayan Language, Historical Trade with Malabar, and an Abridged History of Java
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1, pp. 1, 5-75: Review of a Grammar of the Malayan Language with an Introduction & Praxis by William Marsden F: R: S: London Printed for the Author 1812. (p. 5), review of Mr Marsdens Malay Grammar. Copy. Printed (with some considerable verbal variations, omissions, &c.) in the Edinburgh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1813
Extent:
1 volume, 160 pages
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