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In late August 1811, a member of Lord Minto’s expedition to Java, the giddy 35-year-old Scottish folklorist and Orientalist John Leyden set foot in the Dutch colonial capital of Batavia with his eyes firmly set on locating its collections of Malay manuscripts. What awaited him, however, was not merely two centuries of accumulated manuscripts, for there was apparently something sinister in the musty air of an unventilated library, perhaps even that of the Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences, and he contracted an infection that was to take his life within a few short days.
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Laffan, M. (2013). “A Religion That Is Extremely Easy and Unusually Light to Take On”: Dutch and English Knowledge of Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1595–1811. In: Boomgaard, P. (eds) Empire and Science in the Making. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334022_7
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