This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... afterwards forwarded him a copy of the Yacna. Sir Gore Ouseley. the Vice-President of the Asiatic Society, introduced him to the notice of Lassen, who wrote to him from Bonn in August (1838) to acquaint him with his alphabet and with the corrections made since its appearance in 1836 'as well by others as by myself.'1 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... afterwards forwarded him a copy of the Yacna. Sir Gore Ouseley. the Vice-President of the Asiatic Society, introduced him to the notice of Lassen, who wrote to him from Bonn in August (1838) to acquaint him with his alphabet and with the corrections made since its appearance in 1836 'as well by others as by myself.'1 With the valuable assistance thus placed at his disposal, Rawlinson continued to work at his translations during the remainder of 1838 and till the autumn of 1839. So early as January 1839, we learn from Mrs. Rich that he had already succeeded in deciphering a large part of the two hundred lines.2 He derived the greatest assistance from Burnouf s 'Commentaire sur le Yana.' 'To this work, ' he says, 'I owe in great measure the success of my translations.' During his stay at Bagdad in 1839 he was in correspondence with Lassen and Burnouf, who informed him of the progress recently made by Beer and Jacquet. Rawlinson, on his part, was rapidly completing his alphabet, and he lost no time in making his friends acquainted with the result. He was surprised to find that the European scholars just about kept pace with his own progress, and that he had little to learn from them, though perhaps he might be in a position to add something to their knowledge. He observed that Lassen's newest version of the alphabet 'coincided in all essential points with my own, ' but that his labours 'have been of lio farther assistance to me than in adding one new letter to my alphabet and in confirming opinions which were sometimes conjectural.'1 Rawlinson had indeed succeeded in working out the whole of the alphabet by his own unaided ingenuity, so that he was accustomed to say that there were only two letters he owed to others: &, t No. 4, which he learned from Burnou.
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Good. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Cover very rubbed/lightly soiled, corners rubbed/bumped, spine ends very rubbed/bumped with a ~2cm tear and two ~1cm tears at spine crown; edges lightly soiled; front pastedown and ffep have erasures, front pastedown also has small sticker from previous bookseller, which has transferred a small amount of colour onto the ffep; pages lightly age-toned; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. hardcover. Good.
