| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text is annotated in Persian and another is marked * and in the margin is a ms note '*When the sun of the wine arises from east of the goblet a thousand tulips spring from the cheek of the cupbearer'; p.158 has the text 'The lion is a cat in catching a mouse; but the mouse is a tiger in battle' marked * and the ms annotation 'nonsense ', '*The cat is tiger in catching a mouse; but a mouse in the claws of a tiger'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1803 and 1836 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland or India | ||||||||||
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| 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, later a landowner |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland or India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Stephen Weston |
| Title: | A specimen of the conformity of the European languages |
| Genre: | Reference / General works, Language |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | The second edition, enlarged, London: Printed by S. Rousseau ..., 1803 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 6336 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Weston, Stephen, "A specimen of the conformity of the European languages, particularly the English, with the oriental languages, especially the Persian; in the order of the alphabet: with notes and authorities" (London, 1803) various pages, [DH LIB 706]., |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Weston, Stephen, "A specimen of the conformity of the European languages, particularly the English, with the oriental languages, especially the Persian; in the order of the alphabet: with notes and authorities" (London, 1803) various pages, [DH LIB 706]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6336, accessed: 30 March 2023 |
| The style of the annotations and the subject area are typical of several items, to be found in the library, with JD Esrkine's provenance. The book could have been annotated at any time between date of publication (when he was serving in India) and his death in 1836. |
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