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MSS Jav 9

Record Id:

032-003411640

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003411640

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100059864043.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MSS Jav 9

Title:

Fragments of Carita satus and Sĕrat Bratayuda

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r-3r: Various notes. On f. 2v (RV p.2) is a fragment of a letter mentioning Raden Tumĕnggung Purwadipura and Pangeran Arya Panular, dated 10 Muharram A.J. 1737 [15 Feb. A.D. 1810]. A fragment on f. 3r (RV p. 3) mentions a nuwala of Sultan Hamĕngkubuwana of Yogyakarta.

A: ff. 3v-15v (RV pp. 4-28). Fragment of a carita satus in Arabic script (pegon).

B: ff. 16r-34r (RV pp. 30-65), bound upside down. Fragment of a Sĕrat Bratayuda, dated in Yogyakarta, 3 Jumadilawal naga tĕlu nunggang bumi [A.J. 1738/26 May A.D. 1811]. In verse; 11 cantos.

ff. 35v-36r. Notes on the title and calligraphic exercises.

Between ff. 34 and 35 there are 135 blank folios, and after f. 36 a further four blank folios, which have not been digitised.

In Javanese language, and Javanese and Arabic script. This volume is foliated Arabic style, from right to left. References to the page numbering used in Ricklefs & Voorhoeve (1977: 59) are indicated with 'RV'.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Javanese manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003411640

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not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003411640

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume; 36 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Javanese

Scripts:

Arabic
Javanese

Start Date:

1811

End Date:

1811

Date Range:

1811

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm.

Javanese paper (dluwang). 36 numbered folios; with 135 blank folios between ff. 34 and 35, and four

Binding: rebound in the British Library in 1993 using the original brown leather Javanese covers, with stamped frames and ornaments, and with endpapers of dluwang. Dark brown leather spine, and head and tail bands of green and white threads.

Source of Acquisition:

Mackenzie Collection (B-40), 1823

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 59.

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

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)