'A Pawukon, or Treatise on Judicial Astrology, in Javanese. A miscellaneous collection of items on dating, sengkalas, etc., part in verse, part in prose. Between ff. 79r and 135r are depicted 29 coloured figures of the gods and goddesses associated with the wukus, such as Yang Kuwera, Yang Bra...
Sĕrat Jaya Lĕngkara. Dated murti nĕmbah syara jalma [A.J. 1720/A.D. 1793]. Incomplete at end. It seems that this is the same as Add. 12332 after the opening formalities, although a quick examination revealed many copyist's errors. Both MSS were probably taken from some third MS, for although th...
‘Fac-simile, in pencil, of an ancient manuscript in the Kawi character, found at Tagala, in the province of Cheribon [Cirĕbon].’ Crawfurd, 1820, vol. ii‚ pp. 216-17 says, ‘from the figures, signs of the zodiac, and other characters painted upon it, it is conjectured to be a treatise on astrolo...
Records from the kraton of Yogyakarta apparently taken from the court at the deposition of Hamengkubuwana II in 1812. A collection of original letters, documents, grants of land, etc., written in Javanese language and script, ranging in date from AJ 1713 to 1739 (AD 1786 to 1812). F.89r contai...
Records from the kraton of Yogyakarta, apparently taken from the court at the deposition of Hamengkubuwana II in 1812. A collection of original letters, documents, grants of land, etc., written in Javanese language and script, dating from AJ 1698 to 1738 (AD 1772 to 1811). Includes lists of dus...
‘A dictionary of the Javanese language, compiled by the learned natives of Java for J. Crawfurd, Esq., during his official residence in Java'. Javanese-Javanese dictionary, in Javanese script, containing approximately 10,000 items (Ricklefs, 1969, p. 255, is an underestimate), with a supplemen...
Sĕrat Panji Murdaningkung. Beginning dated rasawiyat pandita wani [A.J. 1706/A.D. 1780]; end dated Alip angrasa lĕngit panditaning bumi [A.J. 1706; probably an error for A.J. 1707/A.D. 1780]. In Javanese language and script. In verse; 13 cantos. NB the manuscript has been foliated, and boun...
In Malay in Jawi script. Colophon on f.186r mentioned the copyist Te'ku [sic] Kecil bin Te'ku Itam. Ff.1r-7v consist of rough jottings, short pieces of Malay text, and (ff.1r-4v) a Javanese letter in Javanese script to the translator at Yogyakarta (juru basa ing luji dalem ing Ngayujakarta Adini...
RAFFLES PAPERS. Vol. III. Complimentary addresses from the people of Java to Raffles on his retirement as Lieutenant-Governor in 1816. Contents as follows:- (1) Addresses from residents and public bodies in Batavia, two of which, ff. 3-5 (in both Dutch and English), 6-7b (a copy), are printed i...
Miscellaneous papers, AD 729–1618 (originals and copies), including the instructions given by Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603) to Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke (d. 1601), Lord President of the council in the Marches of Wales, 1586 (1r–49v); a narrative of English naval expeditions, 1588–1603 (96r–156v: imperfect); Sir Walter Raleigh, Journal of his second voyage to Guiana, 1617–1618 (162r–175v); Richard Madox, Journal of a voyage to discover a passage to Cathay, 1582 (180r–221r)...
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Language(s): English, French, Latin, and cipher; (?)the dialect of Coast Miwok Indians (191r); Javanese (191v); Middle English (323r–324r); Latin, English, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, Italian and French (f. 351) Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 373. 1. Instructions given by Q. El...