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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12349
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5
Scope & Content:: A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1780-5
Extent:: 64 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12350
Title:: Bugis diary, 1808-1812
Scope & Content:: A Buginese diary from 1808 to 9 July 1809, and July and Aug. 1812, with pages prepared for 1813. Apparently a (copy of a) diary of the king of Bone, Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣāliḥ (19 May 1809: ‘on this day I completed the 35th year of my reign in Bone'). (Cf. Add. 12354-7.) The speaker in the first person ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1813
Extent:: 45 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12353
Title:: Bugis poems
Scope & Content:: A series of fourteen short Buginese poems in tolo' style. Including an episode in the life of Matinroe riGucina, king of Bone, and the episode of the death of the king of Goa (Tu-nibatta) whose head was cut off in battle. (Both of these kings ruled in the mid-sixteenth century.) Later the story ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 76 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12355
Title:: Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1774-1793
Scope & Content:: Part of a series of Bugis diaries from the court of Bone, Add. 12354-7. Diary running from A.D. 1774 to 30 July 1787; from Aug. 1787 to the end of 1793 the dates are not filled in, the months April-July 1793 are missing, and a torn leaf for Aug. 1793 is pasted in on f. 175. One gets the impres...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1774-1812
Extent:: 176 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12356
Title:: Copy of the Bugis diary of the Sultan of Bone, 1775-1795
Scope & Content:: Part of a series of Bugis diaries from the court of Bone, Add. 12354-7. Inscribed on f. 95r in pencil by Crawfurd: 'Personal Diary of the Rajah of Boni'. Buginese diary of Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone, running from A.D. 1775 to 1795; a copy. From the fact that there are no blank spaces betwe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1806-1814
Extent:: 95 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12357
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1795-1812
Scope & Content:: Part 4 of a series of four Bone diaries, in Bugis language and script, Add. 12354-7. Annotated in pencil on front end-paper: 'Personal diary of Rajah of Boni'. Buginese diary, prepared for A.D. 1795 to 1825, with two facing pages per calendar month, with many pp. for 1813-25 left blank. The...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1795-1814
Extent:: 413 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12358
Title:: Bugis treatises on fire-arms and gunnery
Scope & Content:: A collection of small Buginese treatises and teachings on firearms, gunnery, ballistics, pyrotechnics, gunpowder, and weights: A: ff. 3v.-11v. A treatise on gunnery by the chief artillerist of the king of Kasatela (Spain), Andarae Ri Monyona. A Buginese translation from a Makasarese translation ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 37 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12359
Title:: Documents in Bugis and Malay
Scope & Content:: A number of documents bound together, containing notes in Malay and Buginese on happenings in the last quarter of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. The Malay notes on f. 14 are translations from the diary of the king of Bone, Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣālih (1775-1812), and some of the Buginese n...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 20 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12360
Title:: Bugis notes on medicine, agriculture, etc.
Scope & Content:: In Buginese: treatises and notes on medicine (ff. 3v.-45r., 62v.-64v., 65v.-66v., 69r.); agricultural notes (ff. 70r.-76v.); religious teachings (f. 76v.); kutikas (ff. 45v., 62r., 68); magic and charms (ff. 64v.-65v., 66v.-68r.). In Makasarese: fragments on shipbuilding (ff. 76v.-81v.); a card ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 85 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12361
Title:: Bugis poem
Scope & Content:: On ff. 1v.-16r. a poem of the kind called sitta'sittakkĕng (i.e. composed of other pieces of poetry). Made for Arong Lompo by Arung Palakka (not the famous one of the 17th century, but a prince living at the end of the 18th and the first quarter of the 19th centuries) on the occasion of the open...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 18 folios; 1 volume

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