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91. Add MS 12393

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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

92. Add MS 12394

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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

93. Add MS 12395

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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

94. Add MS 12396

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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

95. Add MS 12397

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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

96. Add MS 12398

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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

97. Add MS 12399

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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

98. Add MS 12400 A-B

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Title:
CHRONOLOGICAL sketch of Burmese history, commencing with the year B.C. 691, and coming down to A.D. 1822; in Burmese; accompanied by an English translation, made by Mr. Judson. This is the manuscript used in Crawfurd's " Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Ava," Vol. ii. p. 277. App. p. 56. 2d edit. 8vo. 1834. Written on a folded sheet of native paper. Tall Folio. [12,400. a. b.]
Scope & Content:
Judson: An English translation of a chronological sketch of Burmese history from B.C. 691 to A.D. 1822. Burma: Chronological sketch of Burmese History, B.C. 691-A.D. 1822, in Burmese with an English translation by Mr. Judson.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 items

99. Add MS 12401

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Scope & Content:
TuTEH NAMEH, or Tales of' a Parrot; in Persian. Octavo. [12,401 ] John Crawfurd: Collection of Oriental Mss. chiefly Javanese and Bugis. Fables: Tuteh Nameh, or tales of a Parrot: in Persian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

100. Or 6622

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Or 6622
Title:
Primbon
Scope & Content:
On the basis of a brief examination. Dr. Th. G. Th. Pigeaud describes this as a primbon consisting of three or more parts, one part concerns medical lore and legal material; another contains Arabic in Javanese script. The MS seems to be of considerable antiquity. It is written on very thin and d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
16th-17th century
Extent:
1 item; 27 folios