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- Abstract:
- Six bound notebooks (Book I-Book IV) and one folder of loose papers,containing manuscript notes by Dr Charles Otto Blagden on the linguistics, customs, genealogies, and geography of the Malay Peninsula. ( en )
- General Note:
- Among various items in English are found the following materials: A: ff. 24r.-274r. Mentra vocabulary, with Malay or English equivalents. Approx. 50 entries. Romanized. B: ff. 31v.-33r. Copies of two documents of Pĕnghulu of Cabau, persumably taken from the copies in MS 297483, vol. I (D). Said to have been ‘copied at the house of Pĕnghulu Sulong Arin of Chabau to whose ancestors they had been granted by the Dato’ Temenggong of Muar’. Malay, Arabic script, with pencil romanizations. C: ff. 47r.-49r. French-Perak Sakai vocabulary, from published sources. Approx. 100 entries. Romanized. D: ff. 50r.-73r. Comparative vocabulary, English-Mentra-Jakun-Bĕsisi, based on words collected by Blagden in the Malacca Territory. Over 300 entries, not complete for all languages. Romanized. E: ff. 74r.-75r. French-Mentra vocabulary, from published sources. Approx. 40 entries. Romanized. F: ff. 76r.-78r. Comparative vocabulary, German-aboriginal dialects of Malaya, from published sources. Including Ulu Kĕlantan, Ulu Patani, Palon, Ulu Indau. Approx. 80 entries, not complete for all languages. Romanized. G: ff. 88r.-123r. Malay-Sĕnoi (Sakai) vocabulary by Hugh Clifford. With notes on Mon, Khmer, Bĕsisi, and Sĕmang equivalents. Over 400 entries. Romanized. H: ff. 135r.-174v. ‘Fragmentary treatise on Malay law, copied from ex-Mata-mata Daud of Taboh Naning.’ Begins on f. 174v. Malay, Arabic script. From an original MS of 61 pp.
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- 176 ff. + x pp.
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- European paper, 32 x 20.5 cm.
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- Dr Charles Otto Blagden was born the 30th September 1864, the eldest son of William George Blagden. He was educated at Dulwich College and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was appointed to the Straits Settlements Civil Service in 1888 and held various administrative and judicial posts in Malacca and Singapore. He retired for health reasons in 1897. Returning to England he studied at Gray?s Inn and was called to the Bar in 1900. From 1910 he developed an academic career becoming Examiner in Malay at the University of London in that year. In 1917 he joined the newly-opened School of Oriental and African Studies as Lecturer in Malay Studies. He remained in the service of the School until 1935 when he retired as Reader in Malay Studies. At various dates he was a Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Society and of the Royal Asiatic Society. His most important published work was (with W.W.Skeat) the comparative vocabulary of aboriginal races in Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula which appeared in 1906. Blagden also interested himself in Burmese studies especially Mon inscriptions. He died 25th August 1949.
- General Note:
- Book I was previously held first as MS 297493 and later as (part of) MS 297483 [Box 3]; Books II-VI were previously held as MS 29794-MS 297498. The six notebooks by Dr Charles Otto Blagden comprising MS 381320 were reunited as a single collection (MS 381320) in August 2017.
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- Transferred to SOAS Library from the South East Asian Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, November 1973
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- VIAF (name authority) : Blagden, Charles Otto, 1864-1949 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/15513790
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- MS 381320 ( soas manuscript number )
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