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Title:
Documents in Makasarese
Scope & Content:
Copies of documents in Makasarese, written in the so-called Old Makasarese characters. The volume contains various items: Sayings of former princes (ff. 16 v, 12v). Disjointed notes on right behaviour and customary law (ff. 1-2). Legal texts (ff. 3v-11v). On the status of the countries of th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Makasar
Date Range:
18th century-early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume; 35 folios

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Title:
La Galigo poems
Scope & Content:
Part of the La Galigo poems, containing the story of the conflict between the brothers Lebarisompa and La Ma'galatung. In Bugis language and script. The MS is described in R. A. Kern, 1939, pp. 1075-6. See Matthes, 1875, p. 92. (This entry from Dr. A. A. Cense.)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Extent:
139 folios; 1 volume

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Title:
Hikayat Amir Hamzah
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a Makasar version of the Malay Hikayat Amir Hamzah. Written in Makasar script (read from left to right), with insertions in Malay in Jawi script (read from right to left) marking the start of new chapters and sections in the text. The text should be read starting from f. 37r and en...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Makasar and Malay
Date Range:
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:
1 item; 37 folios

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Title:
Bugis medical tracts
Scope & Content:
Texts in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2r.-27r., 27v.-30r. Tracts on medical treatment of various diseases. B: ff. 30r.-31r. Amulet with the names of the Seven Sleepers and their dog (Buginese Kahapĕ’e, Arabic Aṣhāb al-kahf). C: ff. 31, 32v. Formulae against evil spirits, wild animals, and ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:
32 folios; 1 volume

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Title:
Bugis treatises on diseases and medications
Scope & Content:
Treatises and teachings on diseases and medications (ff. 2r.-3r., 3v.-28r., 29r.-30r., 30v.-33r., 33v., 34v., 35v., 40r., 40v.-41v., 43-45, 67v., 78v.). Charms (ff. 44, 46r.-48r.). In Makasarese, words written on a sinto strip of palmleaf used for making a cracking noise above the head of a pati...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

80 folios; 1 volume

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Title:
Hikayat Isma Yatim
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a Buginese translation of the Malay Hikayat Isma Yatim. Divided into qiṣṣas and bābs. It begins abruptly in midsentence, telling how the children of notable people liked to go about with Isma Yatim and how their fathers and mothers loved him. The MS runs to what seems to be the origi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:
96 folios; 1 volume

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Title:
Sufi tracts in Bugis
Scope & Content:
Collection of short tracts and formulae, mostly in Buginese, used in Sufi orders (tarīka) in South Celebes, especially in Naksh(i)bandīya circles, in the second half of the 18th century. On f. 13v. it is stated that the foregoing was written in Palopo, 4 Jum. II A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759]. Kasaba...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:
1759
Extent:
90 folios; 1 volume

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Title:
Sĕrat Panji Murdaningkung
Scope & Content:
Sĕrat Panji Murdaningkung. Beginning dated rasawiyat pandita wani [A.J. 1706/A.D. 1780]; end dated Alip angrasa lĕngit panditaning bumi [A.J. 1706; probably an error for A.J. 1707/A.D. 1780]. In Javanese language and script. In verse; 13 cantos. NB the manuscript has been foliated, and boun...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese
Date Range:
between 1809-1815
Extent:
1 item; 89 folios

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Title:
Diary of Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone, 1775 to 1795
Scope & Content:
On f.2r a pencilled note, 'Personal diaries of the Rajah of Bone, 1774-1814. 4 vols. [Add.] 12354-12356', but the series also includes Add. 12357 and Add. 12350. Written in Bugis. From the notes it is clear that the Arumpone (sultan) was the keeper of the diary; in the first half of 1775 he is ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
1775-1795
Extent:

202 folios

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