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MSS Malay D 12

Record Id:
032-002890443
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002890443
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Malay D 12
Title:

Undang-undang Aceh

Scope & Content:

Undang-undang Aceh, in Malay in Jawi script. Dated in the colophon (f.18v) 5 Rabiulawal 1290 (3 May 1873) (although Ricklefs & Voorhoeve read the year as 1240 or 1250); the owner (and/or scribe) is Haji Muhammad ibn Abdullah.

It is said that Haji Muhammad anak Bintan (or Banten? b.n.t.n) wrote (menurunkan) this work during the reign of Sultan Jamalul Alam (r.1703-26), in the year AH 1160 (AD 1747), but perhaps this should be AH 1120 (AD 1708) (with the numeral '6' to be read as '2', a not uncommon occurrence in Arabic script).

Begins (f.1r), after blessings: maka adalah Haji Muhammad anak Bintan menurunkan undang negeri Aceh masa itu Raja Syah Sultan Jamalul Alam kepada hijrat nabi sanat 1120 tahun kepada tahun Muharam [sic] sehari bulan Muharam bahwa dewasa ini adapun ini surat namanya undang2 Aceh diturunkan oleh Tuan Haji Muhammad.

Ends (f.18v): Tamatlah undang2 Aceh kepada hijrat nabi sanat 1290 tahun kepada lima hari bulan Rabiulawal kepada hari yaum ... yang empunya surat ini tuan Haji Muhammad ibn Abdullah tamat al-kalam wal-salam bi-al-khayr wa-al-salam. Sekarang suda lamanya tengah tiga ratus tahun.

On f.18r (probably originally the back cover) are prayers in Arabic and, at the end, a copy of a letter in Malay from Datu' to Datu' Penghulu and Datu' Keempat Suku.

On f.1r is an indecipherable inscription: a.l.m.z al-kalam a.l.m pulau 'amir a.l.n?

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002890443
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-002890443
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume; 18 folios
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Malay
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1873
End Date:
1873
Date Range:
1873
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm. 18 ff.; Brownish Chinese paper, very damaged, now heavily laminated with gauze and paper repairs. 11 lines per page, black ink, catchwords on the verso of every folio. Very cursive sloppy handwriting. The MS has been rebound and it is likely that the final folio has been reversed, and that f.18r was originally the back cover. Quarter brown leather and buckram binding.

Source of Acquisition:

Acquisition uncertain.

Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.127.

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