The Oriental Collections Ouseley Paperback Cambridge University Press Volume 3

The Oriental CollectionsConsisting of Original Essays and Dissertations, Translations and Miscellaneous Papers\nAuthor(s): William Ouseley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108056434, 978-1108056434\nSynopsis\nAs editor and contributor, William Ouseley [tel] published this three-volume collection of essays between 1797 and 1800. Educated at Paris and Leiden, Ouseley became an honorary fellow of the royal societies of Amsterdam, Gttingen and Edinburgh. He researched extensively on Persia, producing important work on Persian handwriting. Several of his translations of works by fellow orientalist J. L. Burckhardt [tel] are also reissued in this series. Ouseley's Oriental Collections consists of miscellaneous pieces contributed by a number of writers on aspects of Asian history, culture and literature. Volume 3 includes an exegesis on Hafez, essays on Chinese dialogue and the Korean alphabet, a cat.