'More than ordinary labour': Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) and the translation of Turkish documents under the later Stuarts1. (28th April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: HEYWOOD, COLIN
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Volume 26:Number 1/2(2016)
• Page Start: 309
• Page End: 320
• Publication Date: 2016-04-28
• Subjects: Asia -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Periodicals; 950.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S1356186315000565
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-1863

Abstract

Abstract: The present short study examines the problems encountered in the translation in England of Ottoman documents addressed from the Porte or from the North African Regencies to the English Crown in the latter part of the seventeenth century. In particular it studies in some detail the translations undertaken, and the problems faced by, the polymath scholar Thomas Hyde (1636-1702/3), Librarian of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford and translator of Oriental documents to the Crown, but reference is also made to translations undertaken by William Seaman (1606/7-1680) and his son, and by the Rev. William Hayley (c.1657-1715).