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MSS Jav 45
- Record Id:
- 032-003411181
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003411181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059396044.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 45
- Title:
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Menak Amir Hamza
- Scope & Content:
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Menak Amir Hamza.
Copyist Mas Ajĕng Wongsaleksana of Jipang. Dated 9 Rabingulakir panca tri pandita jalma [AJ. I735 / 4 June A.D. 1808].
In Javanese language and script. In verse; 85 cantos.
Text of Menak Amir Hamza on ff. 3v-201r; first two unnumbered folios, ff. 1r-3v, and ff. 205v-208r are filled with doodles in Javanese and Arabic (pegon) script, some upside down, including talismanic drawings of sanggar Siti Fatimah.
On f. 2r there is a note by Mackenzie that the MS was received from Major Johnson, 21 June 1812 (the day after the fall of the Yogyakarta kraton).
A beginning of an English translation is to be found in Mackenzie Private Collection 25 (Blagden, 1916, p. 21).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003411181
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003411181
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 208 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MSS_Jav_45 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1808
- End Date:
- 1808
- Date Range:
- 1808
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 270 x 200 mm. 208 folios. Javanese paper (dluwang). 15-18 lines per page, black ink.
Binding: rebound in the British Library in 1992 in a full brown leather binding, reusing the original Javanese brown leather back cover, with stamped frames and ornaments; front cover also with stamped frames and ornaments in emulation of the Javanese style.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection (B-11), 1823
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 64.
C.O. Blagden. Catalogue of manuscripts in European languages belonging to the Library of the India Office. Vol.I. The Mackenzie Collections. Part I. The 1822 Collection & the Private Collection. London: Oxford University Press; 1916.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)