Harriott, John Staples
Record IDcnp02393549
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp02393549
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Bibliografische gegevens1780 - 1839
Plaats van overlijdenParis Voor het laatst bewerkt2023-02-09
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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.
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Verdere bibliografische gegevens01.09.1780-11.02.1839
ActiviteitOffizier (gnd)
Geografische nootGroßbritannien
GB (iso3166)
Plaats van werkzaamheid
Plaats van werkzaamheidKalkutta
Wirkungsort Plaats van overlijdenParis
Sterbeort Verwante objecten
Zie ookEast India Company, London
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KopjeHarriott, John Staples
gebruikt in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
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