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MSS Jav 36
- Record Id:
- 032-003417266
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003417266
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061403889.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 36
- Title:
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Babad Mataram and Babad ing Sangkala
- Scope & Content:
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In two volumes:
A: vol. i, ff. 1-216; vol. ii, ff. 217-348v. Babad Mataram.
The text begins with Senapati and Sultan Pajang. According to Kouznetsova (2002: 64), MSS Jav 36 A 'presents a consistent and uninterrupted narrative in 63 cantos about the history of Mataram from Senapati's appointment as the ruler of Mataram to the fall of the kraton of Mataram in Plered in 1677', and the ending is complete. It ends with the fall of Mataram in A.J. 1600 [A.D. 1677]. In verse.
Pages are missing at the beginning. The MS is misbound; some folios are bound upside down; and on ff. 17r.-17v. is found the episode concerning the death of Kyai Agĕng Mataram (the father of Senapati). Still earlier portions may also be found in the MS on ff. 67 and 68, but it has not been possible to locate a beginning of the text. According to Kouznetsova, ff. 31 and 42 should be interchanged, and also ff. 212 and 223.
B: vol. ii, ff. 349v-373v. Babad ing Sangkala.
A babad sĕngkala, ending with the date buta warna rasa tunggil [A.J. 1645/A.D. 1720]. It is dated Dal, guna ning nami kawayang ing sujalma [A.J. 1663/A.D. 1738]. An edition and translation of this text has been published by M. C. Ricklefs (1978).
C: vol. ii, ff. 374r-381v. Illustrations from a pawukon, in gold, red, blue, green, yellow and black.
A pencilled note on the flyleaf of vol. i by Mackenzie reads, ‘Djogjakarta MS examined by Mr. Krygsman June 1812’.
In Javanese language and script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003417266
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003417266
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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2 volumes; 386 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MSS_Jav_36 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1738
- End Date:
- 1738
- Date Range:
- 1738
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm.
386 folios; Dutch paper, 'LVG'. Flyleaves (ff. 2-5, 212-6, 217-221, 382-6) of English paper, 'W & T Chandler 1809', 'S & C Wise', '1810'.
15 lines of cursive script per page, black ink, ff. 6-162, 236-243 set in ruled frames of black ink (one outer line and two inner lines).
Decoration: ff. 374r-381v contain full page polychrome illustrations from a pawukon.
Binding: two volumes, in modern half brown leather binding with backram boards and marbled endpapers, rebound in the IOL bindery probably in the 1970s. Ff. 2r and 220f contain a note: 'Bound by Mr Ferris January 1815', but no trace of the original binding is found. Edges of folios stained blue.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection (B-10), 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. 62.
M.C. Ricklefs, Modern Javanese historical tradition: a study of an original Kartasura chronicle and related materials. London, 1978.
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. 11. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107
S. Kouznetsova, 'The oldest manuscript of Babad Mataram (BL MSS Jav. 36) in the context of Javanese babad manuscripts of the eighteenth century in British collections', Indonesia and the Malay World, 2002, vol. 30, no. 86, pp. 63-81.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)