Syair Jaran Tamasa, in Malay in Jawi script. Said to be taken from a Javanese kakawin. Telling in verse form of the love adventures of Jaran Tamasa at the court of Majapahit. The first two pages (ff.1v-2r) are set within wide margins. The colophon on f.103v is dated 29 Muharam 1219 AH (10 May ...
Hikayat Pelanduk Jinaka, and other texts in Malay and Bugis texts
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Texts in Malay in Jawi script, and Bugis in Bugis script. A: ff.2-38. Hikayat Pelanduk Jenaka. Text frames of double ruled lines of black ink. (The ink used is initially black, and then changes to a more acidic brown-black ink on ff.8v-9r and from f.22v onwards, which is also used for the text ...
Adat Aceh, in Malay in Jawi script. Apparently copied from Edinburgh University Library manuscript New College 132, but lacking pp.25 and 26 of the Edinburgh MS. Contents: A: ff.3v-26v. Mābain al-salāṭīn, perintah segala Raja-raja. Ascribed to Ismā’īl bapa Aḥmad. Advice to kings, divided into 3...
Hikayat Perang Pandawa Jaya, in Malay in Jawi script. Colophon on f.117r gives the date of copying as 22 Syaaban 1219 (26 November 1804), in the year ba, on Monday, and the name of the scribe as Muhammad Kasim. Double decorated frames in red, pink, black ink and reserved white are found on ff....
Hikayat Indera Putera, in Malay in Jawi script. Ends abruptly. Mulyadi (1983: 10) estimates the date of writing to be ca. 1821. Initial pages are set in decorated frames, with a palette of red, green, black and reserved white. Originally the decorated frames would have been on facing pages, but...
Kitab obat-obtan dan azimat, in Malay in Jawi script. Inscribed on the front cover in English: 'Sary segalla obat or The Malay Materia Medica, from the practice of Sama, Physician to the royal household of His Majesty of Pontiana, copied May 17th 1813.' From Pontianak, west Kalimantan, copie...
Hikayat Cekel Waneng Pati, in Malay in Jawi script. Concerning the sons of Batara Indera Kusuma of Kuripan. The eldest, ruler of Kuripan, meets his brother, ruler of Daha, in an island in the Southern Ocean and they agree to marry their children to one another. A second chapter (f. 113v) begin...
Hikayat Ceke1 Waneng Pati, in Malay in Jawi script. The colophon (f.153v) gives the date as 10 Zulhijah 1201 (the figures of the year written from right to left) (23 September 1787), Friday, in the year zai, and the scribe is named as Da'ut. Concerning the sons of Batara Indera Kusuma of Kuripa...
Hikayat Mesa Tandraman, in Malay in Jawi script. Described as a Javanese story. It tells of two divine brothers Sang Dermadewa and Dewa Kisna Indra. The latter became a hermit on the mountain Puspagiri and the former became king of Kuripan. Dermadewa's sons became the kings of Kuripan, Daha, G...