Cowley, Sir Arthur Ernest, 1861-1931 (Knight, orientalist and librarian)
Person
Biography
Sir Arthur Ernest Cowley (1861-1931), orientalist, was born at Forest Hill, Sydenham, on 13 December 1861, and educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Oxford (B.A, 1883; M.A., 1887). He became assistant in the Bodleian Library in 1896, and was appointed sub-librarian in 1899, with responsibility for the oriental department. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College in 1902, and became Bodley's librarian in 1919. Cowley published work on Hebrew, Aramaic and Hittite, and was Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge, 1912-1913. He died at Oxford on 12 October 1931.
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Arthur Ernest Cowley: The Papyri of Elephantine
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5346
Scope and Contents
The Sandars lectures for 1912, typescript by William Hunt of the Oxford Copying Office, 18 Broad Street, Oxford, 76 folios.
Dates:
1912
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence to Jenkinson, 16 Oct. 1904-12 Sep. 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/238-289
Dates:
16 Oct. 1904-12 Sep. 1909
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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