Annabel Teh Gallop
Biographic Data
| ID | 101711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annabel Teh Gallop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annabel Teh |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallop |
| SIGNATURE | GALLOP A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Library |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1191-9517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Libraries within libraries: The John Crawfurd collection in the British Library
In 1842, John Crawfurd (1783-1868) sold to the British Museum his collection of 143 Javanese, Bugis and Malay manuscripts, together with 119 Chinese printed books. The impact of this acquisition can be judged from the fact that at that time, the British Museum held only 15 manuscripts in Malay and Indonesian languages. The Crawfurd collection comprises a number of distinct sub-collections, notably Javanese manuscripts from the Kraton of Yogyakart…
A Further Note on Francis Light’s ‘Silver Bason’
Royal Malay Edicts from Kedah: A Diplomatic Study of Istimi
From at least the 17th century through to the early 20th century, the term istimi was used in Kedah to refer to royal edicts or letters of appointment. This study of Kedah istimi is presented through the lens of diplomatics, by analysing the formal structure and formulaic components of this genre of Malay court documents, and draws on both original manuscript royal edicts and copies of istimi contained in secondary sources. Two original istimi ar…
Royal Malay Edicts from Aceh: Sarakata from the 17th to 19th Centuries
This study of royal edicts of Aceh or sarakata traces their development over three centuries. In the early 17th century, during the autocratic rule of Iskandar Muda (r. 1607–1636), royal decrees were legally enacted through the ceremonial pronouncement of the king’s word, sabda, in the presence of court nobles. Iskandar Muda’s daughter Tajul Alam (r. 1641–1675) oversaw a sea-change in chancery practice, for while royal edicts were still announced…
A prolific 19th-century Bugis scribe: Syaikh Zainal Abidin and his personal catalogue of 52 Qur’an manuscripts copied
Syaikh Zainal Abidin bin al-Khatib Umar was an eminent 19th century Bugis religious scholar and Qur’anic scribe from Pammana, Wajo, in South Sulawesi. Exceptionally for Southeast Asia, Qur’an manuscripts by Bugis scribes often have full colophons, with details of when, where and by whom they were copied, and so far five Qur’an manuscripts as well as a number of other religious manuscripts by Syaikh Zainal Abidin have been documented. A recent imp…
Chinese plates fit for an Acehnese queen
All over Southeast Asia is found a particular type of coarse Chinese export porcelain traditionally known as 'Swatow' ware but now more accurately identified as originating from Zhangzhou, dating from the late Ming period, from the end of the 16th to the early 17th centuries. One characteristic type of large Zhangzhou dish had a central circle with eight smaller circles around it, all filled with inscriptions in Arabic script. The marked visual s…
Islamic Manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
Aceh has long been renowned as a centre of Islamic scholarship, and some of the most famous Malay texts were composed in this area of north Sumatra. However, despite an abundance of philological and literary studies of texts from Aceh, little attention has yet been paid to the materiality of the manuscript culture of the region. A small collection of 18 manuscripts from Aceh now in the British Library has therefore been subjected to detailed codi…
Trusting in God: Religious Inscriptions on Malay Seals
Malay seals – which can be defined as seals from Southeast Asia with inscriptions in Arabic script – date from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and originate from all parts of Nusantara. The inscriptions on Malay seals serve to identify the seal owner through his (or her) name or title, often accompanied by a pedigree, date, and place name. About one-third of all Malay seals also include a religious legend, usually in the form of a pious expressio…
Qur’an manuscripts from Mindanao: Collecting histories, art and materiality
The study of the writing traditions of the Malay world of maritime South East Asia has been both shaped and distorted by the differing colonial experiences within the region. In particular, a chasmic disconnect can be discerned between the western swathe occupied by the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore, long under essentially British and Dutch hegemony, and the southern islands of the present-day Philippines, for centur…
Sovereign Signs: Titles of Kingship on Malay Seals
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 93, Part 1, No. 318, June 2020
Shifting Landscapes: Remapping The Writing Traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia through Digitisation
Studies of the languages and literatures of the Malay world of Nusantara have long been shaped by the collections of manuscripts held in western institutions, which strongly reflect the interests of colonial officials who formed them. A very different picture of the writing traditions of maritime Southeast Asia emerges from a survey of manuscripts still held in local communities digitised through the Endangered Archives Programme and DREAMSEA. Pr…
Silsilah Raja-Raja Brunei: The Manuscript of Pengiran Kesuma Muhammad Hasyim
This article presents an edition of a manuscript of the Silsilah Raja-Raja Brunei, “Descent of the rulers of Brunei,” from the collection of Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur. The transliterated Malay text is accompanied by an English translation and a complete photographic record of the 14-page manuscript, with an introductory essay. The manuscript can be identified as that given to Hugh Low by Pengiran Kesuma Muhammad Hasyim, one of Lowʼs main inform…
Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founding father of the British Museum and its Library, which later became the British Library. Sloane’s vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals, ethnographic items, and books included four thousand manuscripts, twelve of which were from Southeast Asia. These twelve Southeast Asian manuscripts, including eight from the Indonesian archipelago, are described in detail here. Although Sloane is …
Audiences and an artist: Illumination in Malay literary manuscripts
Building on Amin Sweeney’s study of Authors and audiences in traditional Malay literature (1980), this article sets out to investigate the artists who created illuminated Malay literary manuscripts, and the audiences for whose visual delight they were produced, through a focus on paratexts in the volumes: scribal or authorial notes or annotations, and ornamental and other graphic details. While distinctive regional artistic schools associated wit…
From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia
The papers collected in this volume investigate the relationship between Southeast Asia and the Ottoman Empire. Southeast Asia has long been connected by trade, religion and political links to the wider world across the Indian Ocean, and especially to the Middle East through the faith of Islam. However, little attention has been paid to the ties between Muslim Southeast Asia—encompassing the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapor…
A Jawi Sourcebook for the Study of Malay Palaeography and Orthography
This special issue of Indonesia and the Malay World was compiled by friends and colleagues as a tribute to Professor E. Ulrich Kratz's three decades of teaching Jawi and traditional Malay literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and to mark his 70th birthday on 14 October 2014. Reflecting Ulrich's deep interest in Malay manuscript texts and letters over many years (see the list of publications compiled by He…
Royal Minangkabau Seals: Disseminating authority in Malay borderlands
For over three centuries, Malay seals engraved in Arabic script have functioned as symbols of the authority of the sultan and his court. In all parts of maritime Southeast Asia, there is extraordinary uniformity in the inscriptions of these Islamic seals, which generally identify the sealholder by his name and official title, as well as giving his pedigree and place of origin. Over half of all Malay seals recorded are dated, making them important…
Seals as Sources for the History of Negeri Sembilan
Malay seals are in general extremely reliable historical witnesses, with care and consistency in the use of names and titles, pedigrees, toponyms and dates. A very different seal culture flourished in the Minangkabau highlands of west Sumatra. Minangkabau kings had seals of office which did not designate a particular ruler, but rather the institution of kingship itself, represented by the symbolic regnal name of Sultan Maharaja Diraja ibn Sultan …
Inscriptions of Sumatra; II. Short epigraphs in Old Javanese
This article documents the existence of inscriptions using Old Javanese language on the island of Sumatra, by editing three short epigraphs, the first of which has previously been published but never satisfactorily interpreted, while the remaining two have not yet been published at all. However short these texts are in themselves, they raise interesting questions about the cultural, commercial, political, and linguistic connections between Java a…
Duas cartas malaias de Thomas Raffles para o sultão de Achém, 1811
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Henry D. Ginsburg (1940–2007)
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Yasin Hamid Safadi (1934–2006)
When Yasin joined the British Museum it was an exciting time for Islamic arts, leading up to the first World of Islam Festival in London in 1976, with a host of events at major London
Exceptions to the Rule: Malay Seals in Manuscript Books
Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, Londres Exceptions to the Rule: Malay Seals in Manuscript Books Si, dans les sphères culturelles arabe, turque et persane, les sceaux étaient d’un usage fréquent sur les manuscrits, il en va autrement en Insulinde, où ceux-ci apparaissent sur les lettres et documents officiels, mais rarement sur les ouvrages. Cet article analyse les quelques cas de sceaux apposés à des oeuvres malaises manuscrites où ils d…
One Seal Good, Two Seals Better, Three Seals Best? Multiple Impressions of Malay Seals
The use of more than one impression of the same seal on Malay documents is very rare, but is known from anecdotal evidence in Kalimantan, prescriptions in a guide to Malay letter-writing probably from Riau, and a few surviving letters from Sumatra. This article describes and analyses the extant sources, and concludes that only in Minangkabau was there ever a tradition of using multiple impressions of a royal seal on a document
Malay Documents In The Melaka Records in the British Library
In 1964 F.R.J. Verhoeven, then Director General of the National Archives of Malaysia, wrote an article entitled ‘The lost archives of Dutch Malacca’ in which he lamented the apparent disappearance of the c. 2,000 volumes of records which he estimated must have been produced during the Dutch administration of Melaka from 1641 to 1824. Apart from 150 volumes in the National Archives of Indonesia in Jakarta, some fifteen volumes of Church registers …
The Art of the Qur'an in Banten: Calligraphy and Illumination
Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, London & Ali Akbar, Office for Research, Development and Training, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Jakarta The Art of the Qur'an in Banten: Calligraphy and Illumination Cet article traite de treize copies du Coran de Banten, datant pour la plupart du XVIIIe s. et qui, par bien des aspects, diffèrent de celles des autres pays d'Asie du Sud-Est. Dans ce corpus, deux groupes peuvent être identifiés : l'un cons…
Seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the public record office
2003). Seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the public record office. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 412-439
An Acehnese Style of Manuscript Illumination
Annabel Teh Gallop II se trouve probablement, dans les collections publiques du monde entier, plus de manuscrits en provenance d'Aceh que de tout autre royaume malais. Un examen de ces manuscrits, qui datent pour la plupart de la fin du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles et qui traitent principalement de sujets religieux, permet d'identifier un style d'enluminure particulier. Ces enluminures prennent habituellement la forme d'un double cadre décoré sur d…
Bunga Setangkai: Merely a Single, Withered Flower', or a Clue to the Antiquity of the Malay Letter-Writing Tradition
2003). BUNGA SETANGKAI: ‘merely a single, withered flower’, or a clue to the antiquity of the malay letter-writing tradition? Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 400-411
The Genealogical Seal of the Mughal Emperors of India
The genealogical seal of the Mughal emperors of India was one of the most potent symbols of Mughal imperial authority. The distinctive design of the seal - a central circle containing the name of the ruling emperor, surrounded by a series of smaller circles, like satellites in orbit, containing the names of his ancestors up to Timūr (1336–1405) each preceded by the filiative ibn - was a self-evident masterpiece of imperial symbolism, in which the…
Southeast Asian manuscripts from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane in the British Library
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founding father of the British Museum and its Library, which later became the British Library. Sloane’s vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals, ethnographic items, and books included four thousand manuscripts, twelve of which were from Southeast Asia. These twelve Southeast Asian manuscripts, including eight from the Indonesian archipelago, are described in detail here. Although Sloane is …
Yasin Hamid Safadi (1934–2006)
When Yasin joined the British Museum it was an exciting time for Islamic arts, leading up to the first World of Islam Festival in London in 1976, with a host of events at major London
Malay Documents In The Melaka Records in the British Library
In 1964 F.R.J. Verhoeven, then Director General of the National Archives of Malaysia, wrote an article entitled ‘The lost archives of Dutch Malacca’ in which he lamented the apparent disappearance of the c. 2,000 volumes of records which he estimated must have been produced during the Dutch administration of Melaka from 1641 to 1824. Apart from 150 volumes in the National Archives of Indonesia in Jakarta, some fifteen volumes of Church registers …
Sultan Abdul Mubin of Brunei: Two literary depictions of his reign
Cerita kapal asap
Short notes: Southeast Asia biographical data base (Seabub) — News from Italy — News from the USSR — Project Somr: Preliminary report — Early Malay printing 1603–1900: An exhibition in the British lib…
Sultan Abdul Mubin of Brunei: Two literary depictions of his reign
The Genealogical Seal of the Mughal Emperors of India
The genealogical seal of the Mughal emperors of India was one of the most potent symbols of Mughal imperial authority. The distinctive design of the seal - a central circle containing the name of the ruling emperor, surrounded by a series of smaller circles, like satellites in orbit, containing the names of his ancestors up to Timūr (1336–1405) each preceded by the filiative ibn - was a self-evident masterpiece of imperial symbolism, in which the…
Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia
The study day on Indonesian manuscripts
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Bunga Setangkai: Merely a Single, Withered Flower', or a Clue to the Antiquity of the Malay Letter-Writing Tradition
2003). BUNGA SETANGKAI: ‘merely a single, withered flower’, or a clue to the antiquity of the malay letter-writing tradition? Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 400-411
Seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the public record office
2003). Seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the public record office. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 412-439
Ottoman influences in the seal of sultan alauddin riayat syah of aceh (r.1589–1604)
The close links that existed between Aceh and Turkey during the 16th century were forged mainly during the reigns of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah al-Kahar of Aceh (r.1537?–1571) and of the Ottoman r
An Acehnese Style of Manuscript Illumination
Annabel Teh Gallop II se trouve probablement, dans les collections publiques du monde entier, plus de manuscrits en provenance d'Aceh que de tout autre royaume malais. Un examen de ces manuscrits, qui datent pour la plupart de la fin du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles et qui traitent principalement de sujets religieux, permet d'identifier un style d'enluminure particulier. Ces enluminures prennent habituellement la forme d'un double cadre décoré sur d…
The spirit of Langkasuka? Illuminated manuscripts from the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula
A survey of illuminated Islamic manuscripts from the Malay peninsula reveals a very uneven pattern of distribution. While one or two impressive manuscripts are known from Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Selan
Camels, Seals and the Early Tin Coinage of Brunei
Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, London Camels, Seals and the Early Tin Coinage of Brunei Parmi les collections de monnaies islamiques frappées en Asie du Sud-Est, l'une des plus intéressantes et des plus inhabituelles provient du sultanat de Brunei. Ces pièces, appelées pitis, ont circulé pendant une très longue période, depuis au moins la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle jusqu'au milieu du XIXe. Beaucoup d'entre elles portent, sur une fac…
One Seal Good, Two Seals Better, Three Seals Best? Multiple Impressions of Malay Seals
The use of more than one impression of the same seal on Malay documents is very rare, but is known from anecdotal evidence in Kalimantan, prescriptions in a guide to Malay letter-writing probably from Riau, and a few surviving letters from Sumatra. This article describes and analyses the extant sources, and concludes that only in Minangkabau was there ever a tradition of using multiple impressions of a royal seal on a document
Malay Documents In The Melaka Records in the British Library
In 1964 F.R.J. Verhoeven, then Director General of the National Archives of Malaysia, wrote an article entitled ‘The lost archives of Dutch Malacca’ in which he lamented the apparent disappearance of the c. 2,000 volumes of records which he estimated must have been produced during the Dutch administration of Melaka from 1641 to 1824. Apart from 150 volumes in the National Archives of Indonesia in Jakarta, some fifteen volumes of Church registers …
The Art of the Qur'an in Banten: Calligraphy and Illumination
Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, London & Ali Akbar, Office for Research, Development and Training, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Jakarta The Art of the Qur'an in Banten: Calligraphy and Illumination Cet article traite de treize copies du Coran de Banten, datant pour la plupart du XVIIIe s. et qui, par bien des aspects, diffèrent de celles des autres pays d'Asie du Sud-Est. Dans ce corpus, deux groupes peuvent être identifiés : l'un cons…
Exceptions to the Rule: Malay Seals in Manuscript Books
Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, Londres Exceptions to the Rule: Malay Seals in Manuscript Books Si, dans les sphères culturelles arabe, turque et persane, les sceaux étaient d’un usage fréquent sur les manuscrits, il en va autrement en Insulinde, où ceux-ci apparaissent sur les lettres et documents officiels, mais rarement sur les ouvrages. Cet article analyse les quelques cas de sceaux apposés à des oeuvres malaises manuscrites où ils d…
Henry D. Ginsburg (1940–2007)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Yasin Hamid Safadi (1934–2006)
When Yasin joined the British Museum it was an exciting time for Islamic arts, leading up to the first World of Islam Festival in London in 1976, with a host of events at major London
Duas cartas malaias de Thomas Raffles para o sultão de Achém, 1811
.
Inscriptions of Sumatra; II. Short epigraphs in Old Javanese
This article documents the existence of inscriptions using Old Javanese language on the island of Sumatra, by editing three short epigraphs, the first of which has previously been published but never satisfactorily interpreted, while the remaining two have not yet been published at all. However short these texts are in themselves, they raise interesting questions about the cultural, commercial, political, and linguistic connections between Java a…
Seals as Sources for the History of Negeri Sembilan
Malay seals are in general extremely reliable historical witnesses, with care and consistency in the use of names and titles, pedigrees, toponyms and dates. A very different seal culture flourished in the Minangkabau highlands of west Sumatra. Minangkabau kings had seals of office which did not designate a particular ruler, but rather the institution of kingship itself, represented by the symbolic regnal name of Sultan Maharaja Diraja ibn Sultan …
From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia
The papers collected in this volume investigate the relationship between Southeast Asia and the Ottoman Empire. Southeast Asia has long been connected by trade, religion and political links to the wider world across the Indian Ocean, and especially to the Middle East through the faith of Islam. However, little attention has been paid to the ties between Muslim Southeast Asia—encompassing the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapor…
A Jawi Sourcebook for the Study of Malay Palaeography and Orthography
This special issue of Indonesia and the Malay World was compiled by friends and colleagues as a tribute to Professor E. Ulrich Kratz's three decades of teaching Jawi and traditional Malay literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and to mark his 70th birthday on 14 October 2014. Reflecting Ulrich's deep interest in Malay manuscript texts and letters over many years (see the list of publications compiled by He…
Royal Minangkabau Seals: Disseminating authority in Malay borderlands
For over three centuries, Malay seals engraved in Arabic script have functioned as symbols of the authority of the sultan and his court. In all parts of maritime Southeast Asia, there is extraordinary uniformity in the inscriptions of these Islamic seals, which generally identify the sealholder by his name and official title, as well as giving his pedigree and place of origin. Over half of all Malay seals recorded are dated, making them important…
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