[ work in progress ]
(1) Asselin’s published works
Asselin de Cherville, Jean-Louis. “La fable du corbeau et du renard [The fable of the crow and the fox],” Mines de l’Orient / Fundgruben des Orients 4 (1814): 330. [Digitale Sammlungen]
? Anonymous Arabic texts in Mines de l’Orient (cf. Asselin’s letter to Dacier) ?
(2) Manuscripts
2.1 Manuscripts translated under the supervision of Asselin de Cherville
» See overview of Amharic manuscripts
2.2 Manuscripts collected by Asselin
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(3) Letters
3.1 Letters from Asselin de Cherville
Asselin to Minister of Foreign Affairs (Duke of Bassano, 1811.10)
- Text not yet available
Asselin to Drovetti (1812 ff) [View online]
Asselin to Volney (1812.04.28) and Rzewuski [View online]
Asselin to Minister of Foreign Affairs (Talleyrand; 1814.07.01) [View online]
Asselin to Dacier (1814.08.01) [View online]
Asselin to Lord Castlereigh (1814.08.01) [View online]
3.2 Letters to Asselin the Cherville
Drovetti to Asselin (1808.10.16) [Digitale Sammlungen]
? Silvestre de Sacy to Asselin (n.d.). Institut de France; Ref. Code: Ms 2375 / 56-57.
- Correspondence between Sacy and Asselin between 1813 and 1815. Ref. Code: Mss 2375, 54-57, and 185-186.
3.3 Letters mentioning Asselin de Cherville
? Letters from / to Drovetti [View online]
(4) [Other] archival material
(? Near) Paris, Archives Diplomatiques
Asselin de Cherville, J.-L. Personnel File. Ref. Code: 393QO/134
Nantes, Centre des Archives diplomatiques (CADN)
Archives rapatriées du consulat de France à ALEXANDRIE: Dossiers thématiques (1816-1827) 1850-1963 (1965). Ref. Code: 20PO/1/1-59.
Paris, Library of the Institut de France
? Votes and decisions following de Silvestre de Sacy’s report on Asselin in 1815 ?
Windsor, Royal Archives
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Cairo, Egyptian National Library and Archives
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(5) Secondary Literature
5.1 Encyclopedic articles
Messaoudi, Alain. „Asselin de Cherville, Jean-Louis,” in Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, 2nd edition, ed. by François Pouillon, p. 31. Paris: IIRS and Karthala, 2012. [Google Books]
Prevost, M. „Asselin de Cherville (Jean-Louis),“ in Dictionnaire de biographie française (DBF), vol. 3, ed. by Jules Balteau, Michel Prévost and Marius Barroux, col. 1291–1292. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1939.
5.2 Works by contemporaries of Asselin until 1850
? Seetzen, Gesammelte Werke and Reisen _ _ _
Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac. “Rapport sur les travaux de M. Asselin de Chervillé,” Magasin encyclopédique, 1815, vol. 5, pp. 297-313. [View online]
Curto, Silvio, in cooperation with Laura Donatelli, eds. Bernardino Drovetti, Epistolario: 1800-1851. Milan: Cisalpino-Goliardica, 1985.
- Includes letters from Asselin to his supervisor, consul B. Drovetti, 1812-1821.
Guichard, Sylvie, ed. and comment. Lettres de Bernardino Drovetti consul de France à Alexandrie (1803-1830). Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003, p. 274
- See letter from B. Drovetti to P. Balthalon, Alexandria (1821.08.14)
Further study
» See overview of people with whom Asselin de Cherville collaborated and whose writings may provide clues about his Bible translation project with Abba Abraham [forthcoming]
5.3 Works published after 1850
Burger, Pierre-François. “Jean-Louis Asselin, agent consulaire et collectionneur de manuscrits orientaux,” Dix-huitième Siècle 28 (1996): 125-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/dhs.1996.2097
Dehérain, Henri. “Asselin de Cherville: drogman du consulat de France en Égypte et orientaliste,” Journal des Savants (1916): 176‒187, 223‒231. [See pp. 183‒86; view online (Persée)]
⸻. Sylvestre de Sacy, ses contemporains et ses disciples. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1938. [Includes a reprint of his article published in 1916]
Hill, Peter. “The First Arabic Translations of Enlightenment Literature: The Damietta circle of the 1800s and 1810s,” Intellectual History Review 25, no. 2 (2015): Pages 209‒33. [Academia.edu]
Messaoudi, Alain. Les arabisants et la France coloniale: Savants, conseillers, médiateurs (1780‒1930). Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2015. [View Notices biographiques]
Pankhurst, Richard. “Two Forgotten Ethiopian Scholars of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Abu Rumi and Liq Atsqu,” Ethiopia Observer 12, no. 2 (1968): 140.