Hikayat Pelanduk Jinaka, in Malay in Jawi script. Telling of the ruses whereby a mousedeer (pelanduk) wins the homage of the animals in the forest. The colophon on f.61r is dated 1219 AH (1804/5 AD) in the year ba.
Hikayat bayan budiman, 'The tale of the wise parrot', in Malay in Jawi script. Telling of the parrot (in reality a demigod) of Maimun, who tells Maimun's wife twenty-two stories during her husband's absence to keep her faithful. The colophon on f.110v, set in a decorative v-shape, gives the date ...
Hikayat Pelanduk Jinaka, and other texts in Malay and Bugis texts
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Panji story, in Malay in Jawi script. There has been considerable damage and restoration; much of the MS is badly soiled, and the first 3 ff. are illegible. On f.52 v are Javanese wayang figures.
