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MSS Jav 20

Record Id:
032-003399286
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003399286
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 20
Title:

Wayang texts

Scope & Content:

Wayang texts, in Javanese language and script.

Containing at least seven sections:

A: ff. 1-49 (RV pp. 4-100). Punika kagĕngan-dalĕm kanḍa jĕjĕr Giling Wĕsi saditĕnipun.

B: ff. 50-105 (RV pp. 104-208). Punika jĕjĕr Giling Wĕsi.

C: ff. 107-148 (RV pp. 212-300). Punika jĕjĕr Giling Wĕsi.

D: ff. 149-152 (RV pp. 307-34). Punika kawin jĕjĕr Ngastina.

E: ff. 153-196 (RV pp. 339-86). Punika kawin jĕjĕr Ngambar Kumala.

F: ff. 198-222 (RV pp. 392-438). Punika kawin Ratu Wirata.

G: ff. 225-262 (RV pp. 448-60). Punika kagĕngandalĕm kanḍa jĕjĕr Ngambar Kumala.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Javanese manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume; 263 folios
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Languages:
Javanese
Scripts:
Javanese
Start Date:
1760
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 275 x 215 mm. 263 ff.; Javanese paper (dluwang), but with English endpapers, watermarked 'S & C Wise' '1811'. 15 lines per page, in a cursive hand, black ink. Dry-ruled guidelines.

Very many folios have textual corrections and additions, either marked onto the page itself, or when necessary, added on a separate piece of paper that has then been sewn with thread to the precise spot of the textual amendment. Each of these small pieces of paper has been foliated with the letter 'a' (etc.) added to the folio number to which it is attached.

Binding: Modern full leather binding (one original dark brown leather board, with stamped ornamental frames and medallions, is stored alongside the MS in the box).

Source of Acquisition:
Mackenzie collection (B-8), 1823.
Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 60.

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. 10. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107

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