Janus: Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

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MS Add.6404-6405	Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection
MS Add.6406-6409	Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
MS Add.6411	Henry Jackson: Lectures on the History of Greek Philosophy
MS Add.6413	Thomas Clutterbuck: Sermons
MS Add.6414	Johannes Fredericus Gronovius: Phraseologia Liviana
MS Add.6415	Alfred Newton: Lectures
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Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

Title	Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Creator	Cowell, Edward Byles, 1810-1903
Covering Dates	1810–1903
Extent and Medium	3 bundles and 1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

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.

Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

Gift of Miss Caroline Mary Ridding, 29th May 1923

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Edward Byles Cowell: Papers, MS Add.6406-6409

Further information

Also see CUL MS Add.4501-4503, 4509, 4510 - Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

Index Terms

Cowell, Edward Byles (1826-1903) orientalist

Manuscripts/MS Add.6406-6409 contains:

MS Add.6406

Copy books, correspondence, essays and articles.
Creator: Cowell, Edward Byles, 1810-1903.
1 volume.

1810–1864

MS Add.6407

'Ipswich Radical Magazine'. Vol. I and pp. 121-140 of a further volume of the manuscript periodical 'The Ipswich Radical Magazine & Review', edited by E.B. Cowell, containing political articles, serial stories, and articles on, and translations of, various classical authors (114 folios). Vol. I was written at intervals throughout 1838, the remainder being the portion for December 1841.
Creator: Cowell, Edward Byles, 1810-1903.
1 volume.

1838–1841

MS Add.6408

Correspondence and other papers concerning the death of E.B. Cowell.
Creator: Cowell, Edward Byles, 1810-1903.
1 volume.

1903

MS Add.6409

Sermons, poems and correspondence.
Creator: Cowell, Edward Byles, 1810-1903.
1 volume.

1847–1902