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Add MS 18577
- Record Id:
- 032-002095162
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095162
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00023f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177197477.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18577
- Title:
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Javanese dictionary and grammar, by John Crawfurd
- Scope & Content:
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Javanese dictionary, grammar, etc.
This volume includes, in Crawfurd's hand, a Javanese grammar, a description of Javanese literature including summaries of Bratayuda, Arjuna Wiwaha, etc., descriptions of poetical metres and of various texts (many of them represented in his collection now in the British Library), and a number of translated selections from texts.
He also writes on the Malay language and on the archipelago in general. Much of this material was used in Crawfurd, 1820, particularly in the sections on language and literature in vol. ii.
On ff. 117r.-244v. there is an English-Javanese dictionary, with the Javanese entries in Javanese script. Approximately 6,000 entries, but not all of them are complete. Many pages are damaged, now repaired.
Apparently this is one of the volumes used in von Humboldt, 1836-9 (see vol. i, p. v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002095162
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002095162
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item; 244 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_18577 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Javanese - Scripts:
- Javanese
Latin - Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- Early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Dimensions: 310 x 205 mm. 244 folios; thin yellowish Chinese paper. Binding: full European dark brown leather binding, with simple ruled frame bands and blind tooled medallion and bud ornaments in emulation of the Javanese style, and marbled paper doublures.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Part of the Crawfurd collection purchased in 1842, but this volume not received until 1851.
- Publications:
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M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 54.
W. von Humboldt, Über die Kawi-sprache auf der Insel Java. 3 vols. Berlin, 1836-9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)