(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 translated under the supervision of Asselin de Cherville
» See overview of Amharic manuscripts
(3) Letters from/ to Asselin de Cherville
Drovetti to Asselin (1808.10.16) [Digitale Sammlungen]
Asselin to Volney (1812.04.28) and Rzewuski [View online]
Asselin to Lord Castlereigh (1814.08.01) [View online]
Asselin to Dacier (1814.08.01) [View online]
Silvestre de Sacy to Asselin (n.d.). Institut de France; Ref. Code: Ms 2375 / 56-57.
(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
Correspondence between Sacy and Asselin between 1813 and 1815. Ref. Code: Mss 2375, 54-57, and 185-186.
? 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
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.