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Or 16215
- Record Id:
- 032-002480114
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002480114
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000040819.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 16215
- Title:
- Hikayat Hang Tuah
- Scope & Content:
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In Malay in Jawi script. Hikayat Hang Tuah, 'The epic of Hang Tuah,' set in the 15th-century sultanate of Melaka.
Reading marks in pencil in English in the margin, eg. ‘19 Nov 35’; ‘21 Nov 35’. There are some lacunae in the text compared to the Kassim Ahmad edition, eg. around f.119r.
On f.1r, in brown ink, ‘Malay’ and a pasted paper label with the number ‘253’. Also a pasted label apparently cut out from a (bookseller’s?) catalogue, with a note reflecting a complete lack of understanding of the role of rubrication in the Malay (or any other!) manuscript tradition: ‘Another copy of the Hang Tuah, of larger size, on European paper. / All the preceding Malay MSS, are fairly and elegantly transcribed in the Arabic Character, and on every occasion that a lacuna in the original MS is supplied in the copy, it is done in red ink; an evidence of the fidelity of the writer.’ Pasted below is a larger printed paper label: ‘Collegio / Sancti Davidis, / apud llanbedr in comitatu ceretico, / d.d.d. / Thomas Phillips, / de Brunswick Square apud Londinenses, armiger. / 1842’, with ‘31,111’ written in ballpoint pen.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002480114", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 16215: Hikayat Hang Tuah" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002480114
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002480114
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item; 143 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_16215 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Malay
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1828
- End Date:
- 1835
- Date Range:
- between 1828-1835
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 143 ff.; unbound manuscript of thick cream English paper, ‘J Whatman 1828’; 390 x 245 mm; 12 quires of 12 ff. each. Black ink with maroon/red rubrics; 28 lines per page; reduced textblock on first two facing pages with 14 lines per page; catchwords on each folio.
- Custodial History:
-
Given by Thomas Phillips (1760-1851) to St. David’s College, Lampeter in 1842.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from the University of Wales, Lampeter, 2006.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)