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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12356
Title:: Copy of the Bugis diary of the Sultan of Bone, 1775-1795
Scope & Content:: Part of a series of Bugis diaries from the court of Bone, Add. 12354-7. Inscribed on f. 95r in pencil by Crawfurd: 'Personal Diary of the Rajah of Boni'. Buginese diary of Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone, running from A.D. 1775 to 1795; a copy. From the fact that there are no blank spaces betwe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1806-1814
Extent:: 95 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12357
Title:: Bugis diary from Bone, 1795-1812
Scope & Content:: Part 4 of a series of four Bone diaries, in Bugis language and script, Add. 12354-7. Annotated in pencil on front end-paper: 'Personal diary of Rajah of Boni'. Buginese diary, prepared for A.D. 1795 to 1825, with two facing pages per calendar month, with many pp. for 1813-25 left blank. The...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1795-1814
Extent:: 413 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12358
Title:: Bugis treatises on fire-arms and gunnery
Scope & Content:: A collection of small Buginese treatises and teachings on firearms, gunnery, ballistics, pyrotechnics, gunpowder, and weights: A: ff. 3v.-11v. A treatise on gunnery by the chief artillerist of the king of Kasatela (Spain), Andarae Ri Monyona. A Buginese translation from a Makasarese translation ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 37 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12359
Title:: Documents in Bugis and Malay
Scope & Content:: A number of documents bound together, containing notes in Malay and Buginese on happenings in the last quarter of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. The Malay notes on f. 14 are translations from the diary of the king of Bone, Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣālih (1775-1812), and some of the Buginese n...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 20 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12360
Title:: Bugis notes on medicine, agriculture, etc.
Scope & Content:: In Buginese: treatises and notes on medicine (ff. 3v.-45r., 62v.-64v., 65v.-66v., 69r.); agricultural notes (ff. 70r.-76v.); religious teachings (f. 76v.); kutikas (ff. 45v., 62r., 68); magic and charms (ff. 64v.-65v., 66v.-68r.). In Makasarese: fragments on shipbuilding (ff. 76v.-81v.); a card ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 85 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12361
Title:: Bugis poem
Scope & Content:: On ff. 1v.-16r. a poem of the kind called sitta'sittakkĕng (i.e. composed of other pieces of poetry). Made for Arong Lompo by Arung Palakka (not the famous one of the 17th century, but a prince living at the end of the 18th and the first quarter of the 19th centuries) on the occasion of the open...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 18 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12362
Title:: Bugis version of Hikayat Cekel Wanengpati
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a Buginese translation or version of the Malay Hikayat Cekel Wanengpati. This Panji story (in Makasarese and Buginese called Cekele) begins with a scene in Gagĕlang; the hero Tomanggong Aria Wasa is in love with Ken Silabirati, sister of Dĕmang Urawa. A series of adventures follows...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 216 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12364
Title:: Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a Buginese translation or version of the Malay Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah. The story (ff. 1r.-45r.) begins with Ali's expedition against the infidels, the conquest of the country of Parĕsi, the death of the Prophet, and Husain's war against Yazïd (f. 13r.). On f. 24r. is mentioned M...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 49 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12365
Title:: Bugis treatises on firearms and gunnery
Scope & Content:: Collection of small treatises on firearms, gunnery, etc., and teachings about mystical conceptions connected with military science. The treatises which are translations from Western (Portuguese and Spanish) sources and some of those from Malay works are identical to those found in Add. 12358. A:...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 98 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12367
Title:: Mystical treatises in Arabic, Makasar and Bugis
Scope & Content:: Collection of mystical treatises, teachings, and sayings of well-known mystics in Arabic, Makasarese, and Buginese. A: ff. 4v.-28r. Ar-Risāla al-mubāraka, by Shaikh Abu'l Fatḥ Abū Yaḥya 'Abd al-Baṣīr aḍ-Ḍarīrī al-Khalwatĩ ar-Raffanī. Finished on a Thursday evening at the beginning of Safar A.H....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Buginese, and Makasar
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 193 folios; 1 volume

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