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Harriott, John Staples

Ταυτότητα εγγραφήςcnp02393549

URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp02393549

ΦύλοΆρρεν

Βιογραφικά στοιχεία1780 - 1839

Τόπος θανάτουParis

Τελευταία επεξεργασία2023-02-09

Γενική σημείωση

John Staples Harriott (1780–1839) was a British army officer stationed in India, in the service of the East India Company. Harriott is known as one of the owners of the key manuscript of the Jami' al-tawarikh, an important medieval manuscript dealing with Mongol history. How he came into its possession is not clearly known. According to Sotheby's, he found it in Danapur in 1813. William Hook Morley noticed it in the Royal Asiatic Society's manuscript collection in 1838. From 1948 it was at the British Museum, on loan, and then was sold, to an unknown purchaser.In his studies of the Roma people, he made an identification with a legend of Bahram Gur and the Luri to support a Romani presence in Sasanid Persia, now considered to be an unjustified and uncritical deduction that has persisted.