Annabel Teh Gallop

Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop is the Head, Curator for Indonesian and Malay in the department of the South and Southeast Asia section at the British Library, London. She was also one of the Editorial board members of the journal 'Indonesia and the Malay World', based at SOAS, University of London; Committee member of the Association of South East Asian Studies in the UK (ASEASUK). Her main research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and the book arts of Islamic Southeast Asia. She is also interested in the manuscript culture of Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.^[1] Her PhD dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2002) was entitled "Malay seal inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia". She is currently involved in the publication of a catalogue of Malay seals. ^[2]

Dr. Gallop, in association with Bernard Arps, who is a lecturer in Indonesian and Javanese at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, has contributed a ground-breaking book on Indonesian art, under the name Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia and Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia. The book is a bilingual catalogue of a travelling photographic exhibit of Indonesian manuscripts from British collections. ^[3]

Publications

• Gallop, Annabel T. (1985). The work of S. Rukiah. OCLC 68113549. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1987). Malay language collections in the British Library. London: British Library. OCLC 421148952. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1990). Early Malay printing : an introduction to the British Library collection. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. OCLC 499251702. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1991). Golden letters : writing traditions of Indonesia [Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia] (in English and Indonesian). London: British Library. OCLC 473736074. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1992). The art of the Malay letter. Leiden: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. OCLC 66219326. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1994). The legacy of the Malay letter [Warisan warkah Melayu] (in English and Indonesian). London: British Library. ISBN 9780712303767. OCLC 31934410. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1995). Early views of Indonesia : drawings from the British Library. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824818050. OCLC 33079622. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1995). Early views of Indonesia : drawings from the British Library [Pemandangan Indonesia di masa lampau : seni gambar dari British Library]. London: British Library. ISBN 9780712304313. OCLC 35039706. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1998). Musings on a piece of 'wallpaper' : some thoughts on early royal letters from Aceh. Leiden: Leiden University. OCLC 68116208. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (1999). Dates in Malay Seals : centennial, millennial and perenennial problems. Jakarta: Masyarakat Pernaskahan Nusantara. OCLC 67753337. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (2002). Bunga setangkai : 'merely a single, withered flower', or a clue to the antiquity of the Malay letter-writing tradition? : with a note on seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the Public Record Office. Leiden: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. OCLC 67038987. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (2002). Malay seal inscriptions : a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia. London: Thesis. OCLC 59352122. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (2009). Sultanah Tajul Alam's Sarakata of 1666 : the earliest known original royal decree from Aceh. Singapore: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. OCLC 457139555. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (2010). Lasting impressions : seals from the Islamic world : a travelling photographic exhibition from the British Library and the British Museum. London: British Library. OCLC 713259274. 
• Gallop, Annabel T. (2010). A guardian of Thai treasures: Henry Ginsburg (1940–2007) : a display to mark the 70th anniversary of his birth – 5 November 2010. London: British Library. OCLC 713259168. 
• The Genealogical Seal of the Mughal Emperors of India, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9/1 (1999), pp. 77–140
• Seni hias manuskrip Melayu (Malay manuscript illumination), in Warisan manuskrip Melayu (Kuala Lumpur, Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia, 2002, pp. 233–259) ISBN 967-931-130-9
• The study day on Indonesian manuscripts, published in Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol. 30, No. 86, pp. 5–8, (London, 2002)
• Bunga setangkai: 'merely a single, withered flower', or a clue to the antiquity of the Malay letter-writing tradition?, published in Indonesia and the Malay world, Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 400–411 (London, November 2003)
• Seventeenth-century Indonesian letters in the Public Record Office, published in Indonesia and the Malay world, Vol. 31, No. 91, pp. 412–439 (London, November 2003)
• Zeventiende-eeuwse zegels uit de Molukken & Een koran uit Manipa, published in Ridjali: historie van Hitu: een Ambonse geschiedenis uit de zeventiende eeuw, pp. 24, 26–27, edited by Hans Straver, Chris van Fraassen en Jan van der Putten, (Utrecht, Landelijk Steunpunt Educatie Molukkers, 2004) ISBN 90-76729-37-9
• An Acehnese Style of Manuscript Illumination,Archipel, 70:193–240, (Paris, 2004)
• Seni mushaf di Asia Tenggara ('The art of the Qur'an in Southeast Asia'), published in Jurnal lektur keagamaan, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 121–143 (Jakarta, 2004)
• Ottoman influences in the seal of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah of Aceh (r.1589–1604), published in Indonesia and the Malay world, Vol. 32, No. 93, pp. 176–190 (London, July 2004)
• A remarkable Penang Qur'an manuscript, published in Heritage Asia, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 39–41 (Petaling Jaya, December 2003 – February 2004)
• Camels, seals and the early tin coinage of Brunei, published in Archipel, 70, pp. 261–280 (Paris, 2005)
• The spirit of Langkasuka? Illuminated manuscripts from the East Coast of the Malay peninsula, published in Indonesia and the Malay world, Vol.33, No.96, pp. 113–182 (London, July 2005)
• Beautifying Jawi: between calligraphy and palaeography, edited by Asmah Haji Omar, published in Malay images, pp. 194–233, (Tanjong Malim, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 2005) ISBN 983-41431-2-5
• Ripples from the West: Manuscript Illumination in Banten. Paper presented at ASEASUK Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 29 April-1 May 2005
• Islamic manuscript art of Southeast Asia, published in Crescent moon: Islamic art & civilisation in Southeast Asia, pp. 158–183, edited by James Bennett (Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005) ISBN 0-7308-3030-6
• A cabinet of oriental curiosities. An album for Graham Shaw from his colleagues, (London, The British Library, 2006) ISBN 0-7123-4961-8
• One seal good, two seals better, three seals best? Multiple impressions of Malay seals, published in Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol.34, No.100, pp. 407–426 (London, 2006)
• Malay documents in the Melaka Records in the British Library, published in Itinerario: bulletin of the Leyden Centre for the History of European Expansion, Vol.30, No.2, pp. 54–77 (Leiden, 2006)
• The art of the Qur’an in Banten: calligraphy and illumination, in Archipel, 72, pp. 95–156 (Paris, 2006)
• Indonesia and the Malay World. Centennial issue in honour of Nigel Phillips, (London, Routledge, 2006) ISSN 1363-9811
• The art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia, edited by Fahmida Suleman, published in Word of God, Art of Man: the Qur’an and its creative expressions. Selected proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18–21 October 2003, pp. 191–204 (Oxford, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007) ISBN 978-0-19-923835-4
• Elevatio in Malay diplomatics, in Annales Islamologiques. Dossier: Les conventions diplomatiques dans le monde musulman. L’umma en partage (1258–1517), ed. Marie Favereau, 41, pp. 41–57 (Cairo, 2007)
• Exceptions to the rule: Malay seals in manuscript books, in Archipel, 74, pp. 139–164 (Paris, 2007)

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