Asselin de Cherville, Jean-Louis

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Biography

Asselin de Cherville was born in _ _ _

Further reading

(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]

Alain Messaoudi in: François Pouillon (ed.), Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française (2012), p. 31

_ _ _ “Cherville, Jean Louis Asselin de,” in French Biographical Archive / Archives Biographique Francaises [Online, De Gruyter Saur 2006ff]

_ _ _, “_ _ _ _,” in Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol. 3, p. 1292

(2) Estate of Asselin de Cherville in the French National Library (Paris)
2.1 Resources

Inventory of Asselin de Cherville’s [mainly] Arabic and French manuscripts deposited in the Royal [now National] Library of France in 1833:

  • Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque d’Asselin de Cherville, en arabe et en français. Catalogue … [View online]

Catalogue of Ge’ez and Amharic manuscripts in the National Library of France:

  • Zotenberg, Hermann. Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens (Gheez et Amharique) de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1877. [View items no. 24‒31, 151; Digitale Sammlungen]
2.2 Manuscripts

Zotenberg, no. 24. Associated with Abu Rumi. Ms. written by Wàsef. Ref. Code: Éth 1.1

  • Genesis
  • Esdras 1 [Ezra] (fol. 173)
  • Nehemia (fol. 215 v.)
  • Tobie (fol. 272 v.)
  • Judith (fol. 313)
  • Esther (fol. 364 v.)

Zotenberg, no. 25. Translated by scholars associated with Al-Azhar mosque, sent to BnF in June 1815. Ref. Code: Éth. 4

  • Genesis

Zotenberg, no. 26. Translated by scholars associated with Al-Azhar mosque, sent to BnF in June 1815. Ref. Code: Éth. 4

  • Leviticus [3 Moses]

Zotenberg, no. 27. Translator not mentioned. Date: July 1814. Ref. Code: Éth. 6

  • Numeri [4 Moses]

Zotenberg, no. 28. As the previously mentioned manuscript, this document was written by Wàsef. Dedicated to the King of France, Louis XVII, in July 1814.

  • Joshua

Zotenberg, no. 29.

  • 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings

Zotenberg, no. 30.

  • 1 Chronicles [Paralipomena]
(3) Secondary Literature

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)]