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Mukhtasar Ba Fadl or Muqaddimat al-Hadrami, here going under the title Masa'il al-ta'lim
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Dated Hadha ashkala (i.e. sengkala) al-jawi min faraghihi 1545 (AD 1623/4). Arabic text with interlinear translation in Javanese in Arabic (pegon) script.
Hymns, rhymed psalms, services for marriage and baptism, etc., in Malay.
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A collection of hymns, psalms and Christian services, in Malay in romanised script. With notes in Dutch in a 17th-century hand. This manuscript was probably written in the Moluccas. The flyleaf mentions the name Cornelius van der Sluijs, and a note in Dutch stating that in the year 1672 he sai...
Letter from the Trinh Lord to the English East India Company
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Content: Letter from Trịnh Tac, the ruler of Tonkin (r. 1657-1682) in the form of an illuminated scroll written in the Vietnamese language in Chinese (Han Nom) characters, probably despatched in 1673). In 1672 the first English East India Company ship arrived in Tonkin in North Vietnam, and in ...