In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Ular Nangkawang, the beginning is missing and the end abrupt. Faint repeated scribbled names in pencil in an English hand on f.91v: Rob Scott, Penang, Bennett, Cotton, Joseph Esq. Prayer in Arabic on f.92r.
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Hang Tuah. According to a note on f.1r, this MS was copied in the port of Kedah from a MS belonging to the Sultan, with the permission of the Datuk Bendahara, and was brought to Penang during the time of Governor Bruce (Mar-Dec 1810), where it was owned by Bapu K...
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Putera Gangga. In the beginning is told the story of one Maharaja Derma Dewa, descended from a 'raja di kainderaan', who founds a state called Mercu Negara. Ending abrupt.
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Dewa Indera Layangan, telling the story of a king Mengindera Cuaca of Indera Perjangga and his sons. Colophon on f.69r states that the MS was completed on 30 Safar 1230 (11 February 1815) in Kampung Melayu, Semarang (tarikh seribu dua ratus tiga puluh tahun kepad...
Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala, 'Account of the state of Bengal', in Malay in Jawi script. Composed by Ahmad Rijaluddin ibn Hakim Long Fakir Kandu about his journey from Penang to Bengal in the company of Robert Scott, the account dated Ramadan 1226 (September 1811).
Hikayat Mesa Taman Sira Panji Jayeng Kusuma, in Malay in Jawi script. A note in Javanese on f.2r identifies this as the property of one 'Pangeran Sarip Surya'. The text ends with a syair on ff.113r-114v; the colophon on f.114v gives the date 15 Syaaban, a Friday, but no year.
Hikayat Syahi Mardan, in Malay in Jawi script. The colophon on f.79r states that the MS was completed on Sunday at 9 o'clock in the morning in the month of Muharam by Enci' Amat of Kampung Tawang, Semarang (tamat di dalam hari ahad kepada waktu pukul sembilan pagi kepada bulan Muharam, bukan h...
Translations from Makassar and Bugis texts, into locally-tinged Malay, continued from Add. MS 12396.
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Containing translations from Bugis diaries and from notes and letters written on diary pages which had originally been left blank. There are notes from diaries (presumably of the court of Bone) between AD 1759 and 1775, and notes about events in the years between AH 1219...
In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Makrifat, narrative poem on Islamic doctrine and the transience of worldly goods; incomplete at end. The colophon (f.23v) gives date of copying as 24 Zulhijah (no year) and name of the scribe and owner of the MS as Da'ut (wa-katibuhu Da'ut yang empunnya syair ini...