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Add MS 19382

Record Id:
032-002096021
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002096021
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19382
Title:

Pustaha

Scope & Content:

Pustaha. Peculiar Mandailing Batak script. The first text concerns pagar balik kunda, the second pangulubalang (e.g. ahu debata ni aji batara guru na margorar sanggabunu ma inon, in the part of the text in Or. 2445).

According to the description in Ricklefs and Voorhoeve (1977: 10): "The MS is in two pieces, one of them being Or. 2445. The MS must be rather old, for it was broken after one side and three pp. of the other had been written. Thereafter it was stitched back together hut with the pieces wrongly reassembled, and on the reverse the second text was then written."

At present, Add 19382 is in two parts: (i) 39 leaves, with the first leaf stuck down to the front cover; (ii) 3 leaves, with 2 modern paper end leaves. The first two leaves of (i) are written upside down with respect to the other leaves. The leaves on part (ii) on this same side are also upside-down in relation to those in (i).

On the other side of the manuscript the leaves in part (ii), and are still upside down from the rest of the text, and in a different hand.

Many illustrations in black ink on both sides of the manuscript.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy:
032-002096021
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Batak
Scripts:
Batak
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
18th century-early 19th century
Era:
CE
Place of Origin:
Sumatra
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 200 x 100 mm.

This part of the MS has 41 leaves of treebark. 9 lines of text per page, in black ink.

Binding: Two plain wooden covers. The front cover appears to be original but the back cover may have been added in the British Museum in the 19th century.

Custodial History:
MSS Add. 19378-85 were purchased from Dr. E. G. Latham, 1853. Latham had received them from Baron Oscar von Kessel, who had travelled in the Batak country from Tobing via Sipirok to Sigompulon in 1844 (see von Kessel, 1856).
Source of Acquisition:
Purchased from Dr. E. G. Latham, 1853.
Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 10.

O. von Kessel, ‘Reis in de nog onafhankelijke Batak-landen van Klein-Toba, op Sumatra, in 1844 (vertaald uit ‘Dau Ausland’). BKI, vol. 4, pp. 55-97.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)