Evidence: | [Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the text, including detailed points of grammar e.g. Text = "It is a general rule that the Ghazel do not contain more than twelve distiche; * although some poets formerly made Ghazels of greater length", ms note = "or less than five"; p. 6 Text = "Mo-sum-mut", ms note = "Moosullis"; p. 70 Text = "This [mark] is a conjunction [underlined] occurring in the middle of an hemistich, * when it receives the accent of the preceding letter", [whole clause is underlined], ms note = "In summary it is removed & its accent is given to the preceding letter"; the note on p.19 is in Persian. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1800 | ||||||||||
Country: | India or Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Drummond Erskine |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Apr 1776 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | East India Company Writer (Bengal), later landowner |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | India or Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Item has provenance |
Author: | Francis Gladwin |
Title: | Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin |
Genre: | Poetry, Language |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Calcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 5559 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gladwin, Francis, "Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin" , Calcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798 [DH LIB 325]., |
Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gladwin, Francis, "Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin" , Calcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798 [DH LIB 325]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5559, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife The identification of the reader is based evidence from many other items in the library with John Drummond Erskine's provenance. He collected and annotated several books while serving in India but it is possible that this item was annotated once he was back in Scotland. |
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