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...
Hymns, rhymed psalms, services for marriage and baptism, etc., in Malay.
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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...
