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Bill of Rights created in 1999 by women faculty at Yale Medical School.
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The conclusion of Salisbury’s inaugural address captures his modesty and even some of his apprehension at the enormity of the task he was taking on as the first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit in the United States.
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Hadley (Class of 1842) had been a tutor of Greek at Yale from 1845-1848. In 1848 he was made assistant professor, and succeeded Woolsey as professor of Greek when Woolsey became president of Yale College in 1851. He was well versed in Latin and several European languages, was active in the American Oriental Society, and was a contributor to Webster’s Dictionary. His popular Yale lectures on Roman law were published posthumously.
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Whitney graduated from Williams College in 1845. He worked in banking and on geological surveys for several years before entering Yale College in 1849 in the new Department of Philosophy and the Arts. He would become Salisbury’s most famous and brilliant student.
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The seven “suspended poems†(Muʻallaqāt), composed in pre-Islamic times, are masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, and Zawzanī is one of their most important commentators. This manuscript, from Silvestre de Sacy’s personal library, was interleaved with blank pages on which he made his annotations. Salisbury gave lectures on the Muʻallaqāt during his first academic year at Yale in 1843, likely relying upon this copy, purchased from the auction of Silvestre de Sacy’s library earlier that year.
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Published in the year Salisbury returned to New Haven, this work depicts the frontage of Yale College along College Street, the Theological Department where Salisbury first held his appointment, and a map of the college campus at the time. Salisbury’s financial support was crucial to the completion of the “New Library†(marked “P†on the map and at that date still unfinished), now Dwight Hall on the Old Campus.
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A 13th-century history of the Arabian Peninsula edited by the English Orientalist Edward Pococke (1604-1691), published with an appendix by Silvestre de Sacy. One of the recommended texts for the students in Lassen’s lectures.
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Norwegian-born Orientalist and professor of Old Indian language and literature at the University of Bonn.
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These lecture notes were made for Salisbury by one of Lassen’s students. The section on view is an introduction to the study of Arab history, with a list of recommended texts for reading, including the Pococke text displayed in this case.
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These lecture notes were made for Salisbury by one of Lassen’s students.
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The American Oriental Society, founded in Boston on September 7, 1842, is one of the oldest scholarly societies in the United States, and the oldest that is devoted to a particular field of scholarship.
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Yale Corporation minutes were recorded on the spot in a large bound register, with a fair copy made later by the secretary of the Corporation. This document is a copy of that vote made by then-Secretary Elizur Goodrich (1761-1849), given to Salisbury for his own records.
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