IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ORIENTAL 1
Held at: University College London
Title: Perron Manuscripts
Date(s): 1827
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes each containing 149 leaves
Name of creator(s): Perron | Nicolas | fl c1825-c1870 | French writer on Islamic culture
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author of the text is presumably Nicolas Perron, a French writer who published various texts on Islamic culture, literature and law, 1825-1870, with the following published posthumously: L'Islamisme: son institution, son influence et son avenir, par le Dr Perron: ouvrage posthume, publié et annoté par son neveu Alfred Clerc (1877); Balance de la loi musulmane; ou, Esprit de la législation islamique et divergences de ses quatre rites jurisprudentiels ... Traduit de l'arabe par le Dr Perron, ed J D Luciani (Alger, 1898); Lettres du Dr Perron du Caire et d'Alexandrie à M Jules Mohl, à Paris, 1838-1854, ed Yacoub Artin (Le Caire, 1911); Maliki Law being a summary from French translations [by Perron, Seignette, & Zeys] of the Mukhtasar of Sidi Khalil, with notes and bibliography by F H Ruxton ... Published by order of Sir F D Lugard ... Governor-General of Nigeria (London, 1916).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Two manuscript volumes, 1827: Melange Arabe. Texte et traduction. Traductions diversées, tirées, ainsi que le texte Oriental, pour la plus part du Journal Asiatique, par M Perron (texts on the East, including works of writers on royal dynasties).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: One volume Arabic, one volume French
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Paper manuscripts, half bound.
Finding aids:
List at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Bookplate of St John Brooks.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: British Library OPAC. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2001