Manuscript consisting of very tattered pages, incomplete. Prayers and recitations in Arabic with occasional lines in Arabu-Tamil. Physical characteristics of original material: Dimensions: L 21 W 14 (dimensions of largest page). Extent and format of original material: unbound manuscript, 21 fol...
Bound manuscript, various prayers and recitations. Some of the material is in Arabu-Tamil. Physical characteristics of original material: In very poor state; damaged spine and pages. Some pages torn. Written in different hands. Dimensions: L 21 W 16.5 H 3.5. Extent and format of original mate...
Bound dark brown notebook, covered with cellophane. A record of family events – births, deaths etc. Abdul Hamid Singalaxana was B.D.K Saldin's grand-uncle from his paternal and maternal sides, due to intermarriage within the family. Creation dates: earliest entry 1868; latest 1963. Physical cha...
Small bound manuscript of a maulud text, mainly in Arabic. Physical characteristics of original material: No cover, pages stained and torn at the edges. Dimensions: L 17.3 W 11.2 H 3mm. Extent and format of original material: one volume of forty folios. Custodial history: Inherited from B.D.K...
This is the diary of family records of Tuan Junaideen Saldin, BDK Saldin’s father, recording events including births, deaths, marriages, career records. Creation dates: births recorded from as early as 1906 but most records are from the 1940s onwards. Physical characteristics of original materi...
Small book, pink and white cover. Popular Malay songs in Sri Lankan Malay by Mansour Aarifeen Sourjah. Published 1997. Physical characteristics of original material: Includes signed dedication to B.D.K Saldin dated 15.9.1997. Extent and format of original material: book, 28 folios. Custodial hi...
Small book, seems to have been put together as a pocket book. Found inside a larger book (Arabic Religious Text), prayers Physical characteristics of original material: Good condition but pages damaged at edges, discolored. Dimensions: L 6 W 4. Extent and format of original material: small boo...
A Grammar of the Malay Tongue, as spoken in the Peninsula of Malacca the Islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang
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James Howison’s A Grammar of the Malay Tongue, as spoken in the Peninsula of Malacca the Islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang (London, 1800). Printed Malay-English dictionary and grammar. First pages missing, including title and publishing details. End also missing. Recently re-bound....