Cowell, Edward Byles, 1826-1903 (orientalist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1826 - 1903
Biography
Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903), scholar and man of letters, was born at Ipswich on 23 January 1826. He studied Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic, before training in his father's business as a merchant and maltster from 1842. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1850 (B.A., 1854), and catalogued manuscripts for the Bodleian Library. Cowell was Professor of English History at Presidency College, Calcutta, 1856-1864, and became Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta in 1858. He returned to England in 1864, and became the first Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University, 1867-1903. He founded the Cambridge Philological Society in 1868, and became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1874. Cowell died at Cambridge on 9 February 1903.
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Letter from Edward B. Cowell to John Willis Clark, 7 Jan. 1878
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8954/25
Scope and Contents
Seeks a ticket for unveiling of Prince Consort's statue
Dates:
7 Jan. 1878
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of the Pote Collection at Eton
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4226
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the roll lists of the portion of E.E. Pote's collection of oriental manuscripts presented to Eton College in 1788, in the hand of E.B. Cowell.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Miscellaneous papers, 1841-1902
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4501
Scope and Contents
The papers include passports; proverbs; letters; deeds of covenant; a short story; a report on an examination in Urdu; certificates of election to various institutions; reports on the Sanskrit College and Nuddea schools, Bengal; vouchers of the Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta; lectures; Oude claims; papers concerning the Calcutta Public Library; a report of the syndicate of the University of Bengal; a cheque-book; and the announcement of the resolution to offer Cowell the Hon. Degree of Doctor...
Dates:
1841-1902
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Miscellaneous papers, 1857-1899
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4502
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts, articles, Sanskrit examiniation papers, items concerning the Calcutta Vernacular Literature Society and Calcutta Sanskrit College
Dates:
1857-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Miscellaneous papers, 1835-1889
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4509
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Miscellaneous papers, including passports, reports, certificates, University information, correspondence, translations from Welsh and a copy of 'Bird Parliament' by Edward Fitzgerald
Dates:
1835-1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Miscellaneous papers, 1842-1899
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4510
Scope and Contents
The papers include various notes and verses; a letter from W.W. Skeat to [E.B. Cowell], 17 March 1873; a letter from Mrs S.L.M. Westcott to Cowell, 29 March 1899, with photographs; notes on Plato's Phaedrus, 1842; Cowell's transcript of Bodleian MS Ouseley 140, 'Omar Khayyam' (1856), with two letters from Cowell to Edward Fitzgerald (22 July and 20 December 1856), and the following note in Cowell's hand: 'This is the copy which I made from my own transcript of the Bodleian MS of Omar Khayyam...
Dates:
1842-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Printed leaflet containing hymns and order of procession at the funeral service of E.B. Cowell, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 13 Feb. 1903
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7603/11
Dates:
13 Feb. 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Selections from the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym translated into English by EBC, Vol. 1, 1878 (Circa)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4196
Scope and Contents
There is a reference index at the beginning. Attached to fo. 67 is a letter from Robert Williams to [ ], 7 May 1878.
Dates:
1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Selections from the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym translated into English by EBC, Vol. II, 1878 (Circa)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4197
Scope and Contents
There is a reference index at the beginning. The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Selections from the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym translated into English by EBC, Vol. III, 1878 (Circa)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4198
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Dates:
1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Selections from the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym translated into English by EBC, Vol.IV, 1878 (Circa.)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4199
Scope and Contents
There is a reference index at the beginning. The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1878 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Telegram from E.B. Cowell to Mrs E.S. Cowell, 7 June 1867
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6377/48
Dates:
7 June 1867
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Translation by E.B. Cowell of Ellis Wynne's Gwelidigaethan y Bardd Cwsg ('Visions of the sleeping Bard')
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4225
Dates:
1873 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Translation into English verse by EBC of Michelangelo's sonnets, 1884-1888
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4204
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Dates:
1884-1888
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Translation of Howel's poems by EBC, Jan 1879-1882
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4201
Scope and Contents
Includes: (fo. 1) translations of Howel's poems; (fo. 14) translation of the 'Dialogue between Taliessin and Ugnach', from the 'Black Book of Caermaerthen'; (fo. 15) translation of 'Cyfeiliawg's Circuit of Wales', with notes; (fo. 20) translation of Gwalchmai's poems, with nos 4, 8 and 10 omitted. Fos 25-27, 33-35 and 39-42 are blank.
Dates:
Jan 1879-1882
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Translation of the poems of Llynwarch Owain Gwalchmai by Llynwarch O. Reynolds
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4200
Scope and Contents
Includes: (fo. i) title-page; (fo. iv) note on Gwalchmai's descent; (fo. ii) list of contents; (fo. 1) note on the text; (fo. 3) text of the translation, with footnotes; (fo. 46) index of names. Attached to fo. ii is a letter from Reynolds to E.B. Cowell, 2 October 1882.
Dates:
1882
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Translations by EBC of a selection of the poems of Cynddelw, 1887
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4202
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Dates:
1887
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Translations into English verse by EBC of seven of the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1890
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4203
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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