Record Number: 14147

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801

Country:

India

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

6 Oct 1779

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

East India Company administrator

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

India

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Revisky

Title:

Hafiz

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14147

Source:

Print

Author:

James Sutherland Cotton

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1892

Vol:

n/a

Page:

27

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14147, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Identity of text being read is uncertain. It could be 'A specimen of Persian poetry: or, odes of Hafez ... from the specimen poeseos Persicae of Baron Revisky ...', 1774 or the original 'Specimen poesoes Persicae, sive, Muhammedis ... Haphyzi ghazelae ... by K.I.S. Reviczky', 1771. This is one of a group of some 70 works read mainly while journeying, with Edward Strachey, between a post in Benares and his next posting in Poona.