FOUR VOLUMES in the Bugis language, containing the personal Diaries of the Rajah of Boni, in the island of Celebes, from 1774 to 1812. Large Folio. [12,354-12,357.]
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...
Fragment of a Buginese translation of the Malay Hikayat Isma Yatim. Divided into qiṣṣas and bābs. It begins abruptly in midsentence, telling how the children of notable people liked to go about with Isma Yatim and how their fathers and mothers loved him. The MS runs to what seems to be the origi...
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 ...
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 ...
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 of short tracts and formulae, mostly in Buginese, used in Sufi orders (tarīka) in South Celebes, especially in Naksh(i)bandīya circles, in the second half of the 18th century. On f. 13v. it is stated that the foregoing was written in Palopo, 4 Jum. II A.H. 1172 [A.D. 1759]. Kasaba...
Buginese translation of a part of the Arabic work Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abu'l-Laith as-Samarkandī. According to an Arabic note on f. 2r. the MS contains the middle part of the work, as-sijill al-wāsit min Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn, and, according to a Buginese note on f. 4r., the second part of the ‘ad...
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 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....