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Language Malay Level [40] File

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2393
Title:: Undang-undang
Scope & Content:: In Malay in Jawi script. Undang-undang, legal text focusing on criminal law (hukum jenayah). Begins, Inilah bab takzir, ‘This is the section on punishment’, and presents definitions of and punishments for murder, injury, adultery, slander, theft and banditry, concluding with a final section on...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: before 1753
Extent:: 21 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3115
Title:: Hymns, rhymed psalms, services for marriage and baptism, etc., in Malay.
Scope & Content:: A collection of hymns, psalms and Christian services, in Malay in romanised script. With notes in Dutch in a 17th-century hand. This manuscript was probably written in the Moluccas. The flyleaf mentions the name Cornelius van der Sluijs, and a note in Dutch stating that in the year 1672 he sai...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 73 folios

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