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MSS Jav 11
- Record Id:
- 032-003411642
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003411642
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059864632.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 11
- Title:
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Carita Yusup
- Scope & Content:
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Carita Yusup, fragment ending abruptly in the fourth canto. This occupies ff. 10v-39v (RV pp. 36-74).
Most of the pages in this volume are blank, with the exception of ff. 30v-33r (written in the volume upside down) (RV pp. 98-103 and 378-83), Qur'ānic sūras; and f. 40v (p. 402), a letter beginning sĕrat pratanda Raden Tumĕnggung Mĕrtanĕgara ing kapalĕnggah nĕgaridalĕm ing Wirasaba and dated 19 Jumadilakir A.J. 1730 [6 Oct. A.D. 1803].
In Javanese language and script. In verse; 42 cantos.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-003411642
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003411642
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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41 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MSS_Jav_11 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1803
- End Date:
- 1803
- Date Range:
- 1803
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 255 x 190 mm.
41 numbered folios; Javanese paper (dluwang). 13 lines of cursive script; black ink.
In addition there are 176 unnumbered blank folios of dluwang which have not been digitised.
Decoration: Doodled wayang figures on f. 1v; double frames in black ink around empty text boxes on ff. 38v-39r; sketches of a tree on f. 39v, and of a figure on f. 40r.
Binding: rebound in the British Library in 1993 in a full brown leather binding, with on the front one original Javanese brown leather cover, with stamped frames and ornaments, and with the back cover decorated in emulation of the Javanese style.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection (B-30), 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. 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. 18. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)