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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12323
Title:: Kagungandalĕm Sĕrat Surya Ngalam kalih Salokatara
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 1r.-30v. Kagungandalĕm Sĕrat Surya Ngalam kalih Salokatara. Copyist (sĕratanipun) Wongsayuda (cf. Add. 12282, 12286, 12292, 12322). Engl and Dutch paper: ‘J Ansell 1810', ‘J Honig & Zoonen'. A copy of this text by S. Keyzer is Leiden Or 1910 (7). B: ff. 30v.-59v. Sĕngkala list. Puni...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1815
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12334
Title:: Various texts in Javanese
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 1r.-15r. ‘Javanese Airs' on Western musical staff. Old number: Javanese 67. B: ff. 16r.-34v. Sĕrat Pawukon. Beginning missing. In verse; 13 cantos. Old number: Javanese 70. Thereafter a series of didactic texts in the same hand as B, containing: C: ff. 34v.-36r. Punika pakĕkĕdutan sak...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 item; 87 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12336
Title:: Kuṭāra Mānawa
Scope & Content:: Kuṭāra Mānawa, law book. According to Jonker (1885: 33), this manuscript is a paper copy of Add MS 12277, which is on palm leaf. The note on f.1r describing this as Undang Wangsul 'Cuntara Manawa Sastra, rendered into modern Javanese by the Prince of Sumanap' actually belongs on Add MS 12321 (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 item; 46 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12340
Title:: Facsimile of a Kawi inscription
Scope & Content:: ‘Fac-simile, in pencil, of an ancient manuscript in the Kawi character, found at Tagala, in the province of Cheribon [Cirĕbon].’ Crawfurd, 1820, vol. ii‚ pp. 216-17 says, ‘from the figures, signs of the zodiac, and other characters painted upon it, it is conjectured to be a treatise on astrolo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Javanese, and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12346
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12348
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12349
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5
Scope & Content:: A court diary from Bone, written in Bugis language and script. A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: 1780-5
Extent:: 64 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12350
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12353
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12355
Title:: Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1774-1793
Scope & Content:: Part of a series of Bugis diaries from the court of Bone, Add. 12354-7. Diary running from A.D. 1774 to 30 July 1787; from Aug. 1787 to the end of 1793 the dates are not filled in, the months April-July 1793 are missing, and a torn leaf for Aug. 1793 is pasted in on f. 175. One gets the impres...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1774-1812
Extent:: 176 folios; 1 volume

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