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Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay C 5
Title:: Hikayat Isma Yatim
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Isma Yatim, in Malay in Jawi script. The colophon on f.108r states that the MS was completed on Tuesday night (malam Arba') at twelve o'clock on 29 Jumadilakhir 1222 (3 September 1807) in the year alif, the owner was Mister Raffles and the scribe was Ibrahim. The text on the first two...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 1 volume; 108 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay C 6
Title:: Hikayat Silindung Delima
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Silindung Delima, in Malay in Jawi script. The colophon on f.65v gives the title as Hikayat Seri Banian and names the scribe as Tuan Haji Mahmud from Bintan or Banten (b.n.t.n), (cf. MSS Malay D.12, copied by Haji Muhammad anak Bintan), and the place of writing as Melaka, on Friday, 5 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1808
Extent:: 1 volume; 65 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay C 7
Title:: Malay texts on prayer and marriage
Scope & Content:: Texts on prayer (sembahyang) and marriage (nikah), in Malay in Jawi script. ff.2v-8r: Catechism on prayer (sembahyang), in question and answer form. (f.8v is a copy of the beginning of this text in a much poorer hand.) ff.9r-14r: Instructions on prayers for the dead (Ini niat sembahyangkan ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume; 27 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay C 8
Title:: Hikayat Maharaja Boma
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Maharaja Boma, in Malay in Jawi script, copied by Du'ad on 24 Zulkaidah 1219 (24 February 1805). On f.1r a note, struck through: ini surat kirim pada kekanda sampai kepda adinda tuan yang bijaksana On f.1v, written vertically in the outer margin: pada sanat 1219 tahun2 dal awal pada em...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1805
Extent:: 1 volume; 64 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 1
Title:: Hikayat Dewa Mandu
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Dewa Mandu, in Malay in Jawi script, also called at the end Hikayat Raja Kangsa Indera Pekerma Raja, dated 2 Muharam 1223 (29 February 1808). Concerning Pekerma Raja and his son Dewa Mandu. Colophon on f. 118r: Termaktub surat ini kepada dua hari bulan Muharam hari yaum al-Ithnin al-s...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1808
Extent:: 1 volume; 118 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 2
Title:: Hikayat Raja Dewa Maharupa
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Raja Dewa Maharupa, in Malay in Jawi script, also called at the end Hikayat Maharaja Mahadewa. Copying commenced on 14 Zulkaidah 1216 (18 March 1802) and the book was completed on 22 Zulkaidah (26 March). Concerning the adventures of Dewa Maharupa, the son and eventually the successor o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1802
Extent:: 1 volume; 47 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 3
Title:: Hikayat Parang Puting
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Parang Puting, in Malay in Jawi script, also called Hikayat Budak Miskin bergelar Raja Mambang Dewa Keinderaan. Copied for T.S. Raffles by Ibrahim (in Penang), on 29 Syawal 1220 (20 January 1806). Decorated 'title page' on f.1r, with an outline of the contents, set within rectangular b...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1806
Extent:: 1 volume; 63 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 4
Title:: Hikayat Nabi Yusuf
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Nabi Yusuf, in Malay in Jawi script. The colophon on f.31r states that is was copied on 5 Ramadan 1216 (9 January 1802) by Muhammad Lebai with the assistance of Bapu Syaikh Alaidin (yang menyurat hikayat nabi Allah Yusuf ini darpada permulaan datang kesudahan senda Muhammad Lebai tetap...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1802
Extent:: 1 volume; 34 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 5
Title:: Collection of hikayat
Scope & Content:: Collection of four hikayat, in Malay in Jawi script. A: ff. 1v-80r: Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah. This was MS 'F' in Brakel, 1975. First two pages (ff. 1v-2r) set in wide borders. According to the colophon on f.80r, the MS was copied by Mahmud ibn Husain on Tuesday (malam Arba') 14 Syaaban 1220 (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1805
Extent:: 1 volume; 218 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Malay D 6
Title:: Syair Jaran Tamasa and Hikayat Budak Miskin
Scope & Content:: Syair Jaran Tamasa and Hikayat Budak Miskin, in Malay in Jawi script. A: ff. 1r-67r: Syair Jaran Tamasa. Called in the first line 'Kakawin Jaran Tamasa'. According to the colophon on f. 67r, this text was copied by Muhammad Bakhar at the request of Mister Raffles from a syair which had origina...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1806
Extent:: 1 volume; 131 folios

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