| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a table with numbers [some form of ms index?], two long ms notes, possibly translations e.g. "In the morning I went to the garden to gather a rose when suddenly the voice of a nightingale struck my ears ...". Also has a printed leaf, possibly from an English periodical and referring to verses in Persian by Sir William Jones, bound in. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
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| Country: | India or Scotland | ||||||||||
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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: | Hafiz |
| Title: | The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings. |
| Genre: | Poetry, Biography, Language |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Calcutta: Printed by A. Upjohn, 1791 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5567 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Hafiz, "The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.", Calcutta: Printed by A. Upjohn ,1791 [DH LIB 228]. , |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Hafiz, "The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.", Calcutta: Printed by A. Upjohn ,1791 [DH LIB 228]. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5567, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
| The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife The identification of the reader is based on 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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