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Title:
Syair Makrifat
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Makrifat, narrative poem on Islamic doctrine and the transience of worldly goods; incomplete at end. The colophon (f.23v) gives date of copying as 24 Zulhijah (no year) and name of the scribe and owner of the MS as Da'ut (wa-katibuhu Da'ut yang empunnya syair ini...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

23 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Naya Kusuma
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Hikayat Naya Kusuma, in Malay in Jawi script. At the beginning the hero is named Mesa Susupan Sira Panji Kelana Asmara Pati. It is said that the tale originated from a dalang named Wesapurba and that it is translated from Javanese. Ends abruptly.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

36 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Raja-raja Banjar dan Kotaringin, called Hikayat Lambu Mangkurat
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Hikayat Raja-raja Banjar dan Kotaringin, in Malay in Jawi script. Dynastic chronicle of the kingdom of Banjarmasin in south Borneo, spanning the 15th-17th centuries, relating the founding of the kingdom, the rise of the ruling house, and its later conversion to Islam. In the colophon on f.68r th...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
1816
Extent:

68 folios

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Title:
Hikayat Raja Babi
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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 ...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
12 Jan 1775
Extent:

106 folios

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Title:
Syair Sultan Maulana
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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

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Title:
Undang-undang Melaka
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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

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Translations from Makassar and Bugis texts into locally-tinged Malay, continued in Add MS 12389
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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...
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Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

37 folios

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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

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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

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Title:
Letters and fragments of hikayats, mostly religious stories on 'Ali, Fatima and the mi'raj of the Prophet.
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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