E. J. Brill — styled on the title-page of The Achehnese as the “Late E. J. Brill” — was the celebrated Leyden publishing house that brought out the English edition of The Achehnese in 1906, and which had long been the principal European printer and publisher of Dutch orientalist scholarship. Founded in 1683, Brill was, by the close of the nineteenth century, the natural outlet for the work of the Dutch colonial savants: its imprint appears on a great proportion of the standard works of Netherlands-India scholarship cited in The Achehnese, including the publications of the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen reprinted in Europe.
The title-page of The Achehnese records that the work was “Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1906”; the verso of that title-page adds that Brill was both publisher and printer (“E. J. Brill, publishers and printers, Leyden”). The English edition was thus set and printed at the firm’s Leyden works, under the eye of the author, who, as Adviser for Native Affairs in Netherlands India, was at that date still resident in the East. The translation by the late A. S. O’Sullivan was, as Snouck Hurgronje notes in the Introduction, printed in Europe while the author and translator — the one in Netherlands India, the other in the Straits Settlements — were both “wrapped up in official duties”.
Brill’s role in the production of The Achehnese is a small but characteristic instance of the firm’s central position in the apparatus of Dutch oriental learning. The same house was responsible for the great edition of the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, for numerous reprints of Arabic, Malay and Javanese texts, and for the journals in which so much of the preliminary work on Achehnese history, language and institutions first appeared. Without the scholarly infrastructure represented by Brill and the institutions with which it was connected — the Leyden University libraries, the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, and the colonial administration itself — the careful comparative scholarship of The Achehnese could not have been produced.
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The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
E. J. Brill — styled on the title-page of The Achehnese as the “Late E. J. Brill” — was the celebrated Leyden publishing house that brought out the English edition of The Achehnese in 1906, and which had long been the principal European printer and publisher of Dutch orientalist scholarship. Founded in 1683, Brill was, by the close of the nineteenth century, the natural outlet for the work of the Dutch colonial savants: its imprint appears on a great proportion of the standard works of Netherlands-India scholarship cited in The Achehnese, including the publications of the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen reprinted in Europe.
The title-page of The Achehnese records that the work was “Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1906”; the verso of that title-page adds that Brill was both publisher and printer (“E. J. Brill, publishers and printers, Leyden”). The English edition was thus set and printed at the firm’s Leyden works, under the eye of the author, who, as Adviser for Native Affairs in Netherlands India, was at that date still resident in the East. The translation by the late A. S. O’Sullivan was, as Snouck Hurgronje notes in the Introduction, printed in Europe while the author and translator — the one in Netherlands India, the other in the Straits Settlements — were both “wrapped up in official duties”.
Brill’s role in the production of The Achehnese is a small but characteristic instance of the firm’s central position in the apparatus of Dutch oriental learning. The same house was responsible for the great edition of the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, for numerous reprints of Arabic, Malay and Javanese texts, and for the journals in which so much of the preliminary work on Achehnese history, language and institutions first appeared. Without the scholarly infrastructure represented by Brill and the institutions with which it was connected — the Leyden University libraries, the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, and the colonial administration itself — the careful comparative scholarship of The Achehnese could not have been produced.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.