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MSS Jav 24

Record Id:
032-002363583
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002363583
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 24
Title:
Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang
Scope & Content:

The story of Jaya Lengkara Wulan. The narrative ends with Jaya Lengkara ascending the throne of Sonya Wibawa with the title Prabu Surya Dipaningrat. In a kind of epilogue it is stated that the kanda Sukma Ngumbara is the sequel (see MSS Jav 12). Handsomely ornamented with an elaborate frontispiece, ornate polychrome frames setting off the didactic passages, and gold and red filling of the interpunctuation throughout.

In Javanese language and script. In verse; 93 cantos.

Written in the court of the Sultan [Hamengkubuwana II] of Yogyakarta (Kanjeng Sultan ing Ngayogya) on 22 Rejeb A.J.1730 (7 Nov. 1803).

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Javanese manuscripts
Hierarchy Tree:
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032-002363583
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Hierarchy:
032-002363583
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
204 folios
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Javanese
Scripts:
Javanese
Start Date:
1803
End Date:
1803
Date Range:
1803
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:
Dimensions: 325 x 200 mm. 17 lines per page, black ink with red diacritics, and illuminated canto and stanza markers. Dutch paper, watermarks 'D & C Blauw', 'Pro Patria'. Finely illuminated frames in colours and gold, with double frames on ff.2v-3r, ff.30v-31r, ff.171v-172r (unfinished) and ff.203v-204r (unfinished), and many other half-page frames. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards.
Source of Acquisition:
Mackenzie Collection (B-56), 1823
Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.61

A.T. Gallop with B. Arps, Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia (London: British Library; Jakarta: Lontar, 1991), pp.92-93.

Donald Weatherbee, ‘An inventory of the Javanese paper manuscripts in the Mackenzie Collection, India Office Library, London, with a note on some additional Raffles MSS’, [1973], p.27. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107

Exhibitions:
Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 29 January 2019 - 28 April 2019
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Notes:
Exhibited: Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 29 January 2019 - 28 April 2019