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1. Add MS 12345-12375

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31 volumes in the Bugis and Arabic languages, captured in 1814, in the palace of the Rajah of Boni, in the island of Celebes
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Buginese, English, and Javanese
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
31 items

2. Add MS 12348

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Title:
La Galigo
Scope & Content:
Fragments of La Galigo poems, dealing mainly with Tunruangnge-awana-langi' of Wewanriu': A: ff. 1r.-36v. Fragment relating the end of a sumptuous feast. B: ff. 37r.-38. Fragments, in part not belonging to the Tunruangnge-awana-langi' stories. C: ff. 40-58v. Fragment dealing with a visit paid to ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Extent:
61 folios; 1 volume

3. Add MS 12353

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Title:
Bugis poems
Scope & Content:
A series of fourteen short Buginese poems in tolo' style. Including an episode in the life of Matinroe riGucina, king of Bone, and the episode of the death of the king of Goa (Tu-nibatta) whose head was cut off in battle. (Both of these kings ruled in the mid-sixteenth century.) Later the story ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Extent:
76 folios; 1 volume

4. Add MS 12346

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Title:
Bugis poems
Scope & Content:
Poems, in Bugis language and script. A: f. 1v. Short list of the poems in the MS. B: ff. 2v.-67v. A series of fourteen short Buginese poems in tolo' style. Including an episode in the life of Matinroe riGucina, king of Bone, and the episode of the death of the king of Goa (Tu-nibatta) whose h...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Extent:
69 folios; 1 volume

5. Add MS 12351

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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

6. Add MS 12371

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Title:
Akhbar al-akhira
Scope & Content:
A: ff. 86r.-25r. A Buginese translation of Akhbár al-ákhira by Nūr ad-Dīn ar-Rānīrī. Dated A.H. 1178 [A.D. 1764/5] (for this copy) and A.H. 1149 [A.D. 1736] (either for the original of which this is a copy or, less likely, for the date of the translation into Buginese). B: ff. 24r.-18v. A desc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
1764
Extent:

86 folios; 1 volume

7. Add MS 12352

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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

8. Add MS 12347

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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

9. Add MS 12350

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Title:
Bugis diary, 1808-1812
Scope & Content:
A Buginese diary from 1808 to 9 July 1809, and July and Aug. 1812, with pages prepared for 1813. Apparently a (copy of a) diary of the king of Bone, Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣāliḥ (19 May 1809: ‘on this day I completed the 35th year of my reign in Bone'). (Cf. Add. 12354-7.) The speaker in the first person ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
45 folios; 1 volume

10. Add MS 12368

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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