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MSS Jav 4

Record Id:
032-003411637
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032-003411637
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 4
Title:

Bratayuda kawi miring and other texts

Scope & Content:

A: ff. 2v-71v (RV pp. 2-138). Bratayuda kawi miring. Complete. Copyist Wongsadirana of Tanggung. The original owner of the MS was Kangjĕng Raden Tumĕnggung Natayuda, a prominent noble of the Yogyakarta court. Dated Ehe, but without the year. Weatherbee suggests that the terminus ad quem is A.J. 1724 [A.D. 1797]. In verse; 52 cantos. Illuminated initial double frames on ff. 2v-3r in red, green, black and yellow.

f. 71. Drawing of a wayang-style figure, two birds, building and tree, probably associated with a wuku?

The following contents are wayang texts:

B: ff. 74v-169r (RV pp. 146-331). Punika pemut kagĕngan-dalĕm Sĕrat Kondo Purwa lampahan Danu Asmara. The text has two dates: 27 Sura bĕrmana ngĕmbara rĕsi buwana [A.J. 1708/12 Jan. A.D. 1782], and the date of this copy 12 Ruwah A.J. 1731 [16 Nov. A.D. 1804]. Ff. 82-85 are other documents bound in.

C: ff. 177r-188v (RV pp. 346-69). Punika kagĕngandalĕm Sĕrat Konda bĕksan lawung ringgit.

D: ff. 190v-275r (RV pp. 374-557). Punika kagĕngandalĕm Sĕrat Kanda Ringgit Purwa lampahan Prabu Wanodya.

In Javanese language and script.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Javanese manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

275 folios

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Languages:
Javanese
Scripts:
Javanese
Start Date:
1804
End Date:
1804
Date Range:
1804
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 300 x 190 mm.

275 ff. Dutch paper, 'D & C Blauw'; 'IV' (f. 127). 17 lines per page; black ink.

Decoration: ff. 2v-3r illuminated double frames; f. 25 rubrication in yellow; ff. 26, 29 rubrication in red; f. 71r monochrome black ink drawing.

Binding: half brown leather binding, with marbled paper boards; front cover now detached. Endpapers watermarked '1812'. Headbands of blue and white thread.

Source of Acquisition:
Mackenzie Collection (B-12), 1823
Information About Copies:
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 58.

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

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