Every now and then I enjoy opening a random box on the shelf and get my teeth into something that is yet to be processed. Last week, as I was cataloguing some prints and drawings (more information in a previous blog post here), I found an item annotated ‘Chinese concertina book on rice and silk…| Royal Asiatic Society
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Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Busts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society by Raymond Head. The illustrated catalogue was published in 1991 and…| Royal Asiatic Society
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. Together, they represent an important addition to the Society’s digital collections from maritime South East Asia. The Malay manuscripts have been digitized in…| Royal Asiatic Society
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 collection. Before the presentations, Dr Edward Weech, RAS Librarian, gave a brief introduction on how scholarly focus in the field had increasingly concentrated…| Royal Asiatic Society
