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Title:
Hikayat Dewa Mandu
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Containing a story, interwoven with pantun, of Raja Kangsa Indra Pekerma Raja. Both beginning and end are missing. A note on f.219v dated 1200 AH (1785/6 AD) mentions the owner as Encik Babah of Kampung Tawang, Semarang. On ff.217-22 are writing exercises and rough way...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th century-early 19th century
Extent:
222 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Colophon on f.186r mentioned the copyist Te'ku [sic] Kecil bin Te'ku Itam. Ff.1r-7v consist of rough jottings, short pieces of Malay text, and (ff.1r-4v) a Javanese letter in Javanese script to the translator at Yogyakarta (juru basa ing luji dalem ing Ngayujakarta Adini...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese and Malay
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Extent:

186 folios

3. Add MS 12378

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Title:
Tāj al-salāṭīn
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Taj al-salatin, a 'mirror for princes', concerning the duties of kings, subjects and officials. A shortened version of the text.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

56 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Isma Yatim
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Isma Yatim, end is missing. Niemann says the text differs from various MSS in Leiden U.L., BL India Office, and RAS, but the story follows the same general development. On f.1r are some English letters, a phrase, and in Malay the statement that Raja Ahmad wrote t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th-Early 19th century
Extent:

97 folios

5. Add MS 12380

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Title:
Syair Mesa Gumitar
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Mesa Gumitar, containing the story of a king of Kuripan in Java, apparently related to the Panji stories. Probably a versification of the Hikayat Mesa Gumitar. On the title page called Syair Kera Emas, 'The poem of the Golden Monkey'.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th century-early 19th century
Extent:

55 folios

6. Add MS 12381

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Title:
Syair Dang Sarat
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Dang Sarat, a romance in verse concerning an unnamed ruler of Johor and his wives the queen of Patani and the dayang (damsel) Dang Sarat.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th-Early 19th century
Extent:

69 folios

7. Add MS 12382

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Title:
Hikayat Ular Nangkawang
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Ular Nangkawang, the beginning is missing and the end abrupt. Faint repeated scribbled names in pencil in an English hand on f.91v: Rob Scott, Penang, Bennett, Cotton, Joseph Esq. Prayer in Arabic on f.92r.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th-Early 19th century
Extent:

92 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Carang Kulina
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Carang Kulina, a Panji story, said to be translated from Javanese into Malay. Ending incomplete.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th-Early 19th century
Extent:

78 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Hang Tuah
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Hang Tuah. According to a note on f.1r, this MS was copied in the port of Kedah from a MS belonging to the Sultan, with the permission of the Datuk Bendahara, and was brought to Penang during the time of Governor Bruce (Mar-Dec 1810), where it was owned by Bapu K...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

238 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Putera Gangga
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Putera Gangga. In the beginning is told the story of one Maharaja Derma Dewa, descended from a 'raja di kainderaan', who founds a state called Mercu Negara. Ending abrupt.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

223 folios