Kutāra Mānawa, law book. Inscribed on the inside cover: 'Cuntara Manawa Sastra, a paraphrase of the Institutes of Menu, in the Kawi or ancient Javanese language. Presented to J. Crawfurd, Esq., by the Rajah of Blilling [Buleleng, in Bali], 1814.' According to Jonker, 1885, pp. 32 et seqq., t...
Rāmāyana. Annotated: 'Ramayana, according to the Javanese paraphrase, in the Kawi or ancient character. This MS was given to J. Crawfurd by the Rajah of Blilling [Buleleng], in the island of Bali'. The text starts with canto 19: Tatkālanyān inājñan sahana-hana nika ng rākṣasomətva ri ng pran...
Bhāratayuddha. The beginning of the volume is Old Javanese text, each line followed by a word-for-word explanation in Modern Javanese. On f. 146r, a second section begins, ing andap punika pratelanipun ing lapal kimawon tanpa makna, and is Old Javanese only. A romanised Malay note inside ...
Undang Wangsul Kutara Manawa Sastra, extracts from the Ramayana in Old Javanese and Javanese, and and eye-copy of the Old Javanese Cane charter
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A: ff. 1r.-36r. Undang Wangsul KutaraManazva Sastra. The note on the MS saying this is ‘from a copy on palm leaves given to me [Crawford] in 1814 by the Raja of Blilling [Boleleng]’ actually belongs on Add. 12336 and the note on that MS belongs here. According to Jonker, 1885, p. 33, this is a s...
A: ff. 1r.-15r. ‘Javanese Airs' on Western musical staff. Old number: Javanese 67. B: ff. 16r.-34v. Sĕrat Pawukon. Beginning missing. In verse; 13 cantos. Old number: Javanese 70. Thereafter a series of didactic texts in the same hand as B, containing: C: ff. 34v.-36r. Punika pakĕkĕdutan sak...
Kuṭāra Mānawa, law book. According to Jonker (1885: 33), this manuscript is a paper copy of Add MS 12277, which is on palm leaf. The note on f.1r describing this as Undang Wangsul 'Cuntara Manawa Sastra, rendered into modern Javanese by the Prince of Sumanap' actually belongs on Add MS 12321 (...
‘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...