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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12391
Title:: Hikayat Naya Kusuma
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Naya Kusuma, in Malay in Jawi script. At the beginning the hero is named Mesa Susupan Sira Panji Kelana Asmara Pati. It is said that the tale originated from a dalang named Wesapurba and that it is translated from Javanese. Ends abruptly.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 36 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12392
Title:: Hikayat Raja-raja Banjar dan Kotaringin, called Hikayat Lambu Mangkurat
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Raja-raja Banjar dan Kotaringin, in Malay in Jawi script. Dynastic chronicle of the kingdom of Banjarmasin in south Borneo, spanning the 15th-17th centuries, relating the founding of the kingdom, the rise of the ruling house, and its later conversion to Islam. In the colophon on f.68r th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1816
Extent:: 68 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12393
Title:: Hikayat Raja Babi
Scope & Content:: Hikayat Raja Babi, 'The story of the Pig King', in Malay in Jawi script. Adventures of a prince who came to the world in the form of a pig. According to the colophon (f.3r) the MS was written by Usup ibn Abdul Kadir, a merchant from Semarang of Indian descent from Cooch in west Bengal, during a ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 12 Jan 1775
Extent:: 106 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12394
Title:: Syair Sultan Maulana
Scope & Content:: In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Sultan Maulana, narrative poem composed during the second decade of the 19th century by a Malay scribe from Kedah, during the reign of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Syah of Kedah (r.1803-1843), while Kedah was under the suzerainty of Siam. Tells how a Kedah fleet ass...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: between 1810-1825
Extent:: 43 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12395
Title:: Undang-undang Melaka
Scope & Content:: In Malay in Jawi script. Undang-undang Melaka, the code of laws of the Malay kingdom of Melaka. Contains: Undang-undang Melaka and Undang-undang laut, in the Acehnese variant of the text.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 52 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12396
Title:: Translations from Makassar and Bugis texts into locally-tinged Malay, continued in Add MS 12389
Scope & Content:: Translations from Makassar and Bugis texts, in Malay in Jawi script. A: ff.1v-9v. Part of the early history of Goa ending with the death of Sultan Malik al-Sa'id (= Tu-menanga riPapambatuna, r. 1639-53) and the beginning of the reign of Sultan Hasan al-Din (= Tu-menanga riBalla'-pangkana, r.16...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 37 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12397
Title:: Undang-undang Melaka
Scope & Content:: In Malay in Jawi script. Undang-undang Melaka, entitled here Risalat hukum kanun, Malay code of laws. According to Liaw (1976) contains the Undang-undang Melaka and Undang-undang laut. The MS was written in Singapore, and was commenced on 14 Jumadilawal 1236 AH (17 February 1821 AD) (f.1v) and c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1821
Extent:: 92 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12398
Title:: Farquhar letter book
Scope & Content:: In Malay in Jawi script. Scribal copies of 121 letters from neighbouring rulers sent to and from William Farquhar (1774-1839), first British Resident of Singapore (1819-1823), and related documents.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Malay
Date Range:: 1818-1822
Extent:: 77 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12399
Title:: Letters and fragments of hikayats, mostly religious stories on 'Ali, Fatima and the mi'raj of the Prophet.
Scope & Content:: Malay fragments, some letters are translated from Bugis and Makassar. Several items are dated AD 1813-1814. In Malay in Jawi script. On ff. 59v-58v is found an Old Javanese text, which is a (rather inaccurate) eyecopy from lines 1–11 of the front face of the Baru charter (National Museum of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese, Malay, and Old Javanese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12531/4
Title:: Former bindings from the Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (the 'Portuguese Genealogy')
Scope & Content:: Three former bindings: BM/BL in-house in blue leather with blind tooling outside. Gold-tooling inside fits with velvet. Each binding contained f. 3; f. 8 and f. 1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1530-1534
Extent:: Three former bindings, now kept separately, for folios 3; 8 and 1.

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