Record Number: 5559
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the text, including detailed points of grammar e.g. Text = "It is a general rule that the Ghazel do not contain more than twelve distiche; * although some poets formerly made Ghazels of greater length", ms note = "or less than five"; p. 6 Text = "Mo-sum-mut", ms note = "Moosullis"; p. 70 Text = "This [mark] is a conjunction [underlined] occurring in the middle of an hemistich, * when it receives the accent of the preceding letter", [whole clause is underlined], ms note = "In summary it is removed & its accent is given to the preceding letter"; the note on p.19 is in Persian.
Century:1800-1849
Date:1800
Country:India or Scotland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin
Genre:Poetry, Language
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsCalcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:5559
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gladwin, Francis, "Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin" , Calcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798 [DH LIB 325].
Additional Information:
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Citation:
Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Gladwin, Francis, "Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin" , Calcutta: Printed at the Telegraph Press - by C.L. Vogel, 1798 [DH LIB 325]., http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5559, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife The identification of the reader is based 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.