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MSS Jav 38
- Record Id:
- 032-003417268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003417268
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061404432.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188900184.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 38
- Title:
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Wayang and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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Wayang and other texts
A: ff. 4r-174v (RV: pp. 5-353). Punika kagĕngandalĕm kawin wiwit jĕjĕr Giling Wĕsi. Wayang text.
B: ff. 176r-232v (RV pp. 356-481). Punika kawin Ratu Wirata. Wayang text.
The contents of this manuscript do not agree with the description in RV 1977: 62-63, based on Weatherbee [1973]: 18, as there are only 233 folios with writing on in this volume. Further contents listed in RV:
C: pp. 490-564. Arjuna Sasrabahu (?), dated 2 Ramĕlan A.J. 1689 and A.H. 1177 [5 March A.D. 1764].
D: pp. 565-97. Niti Sruti, dated at the end 21 Ramĕlan A.J. 1689 [March A.D. 1764].
In Javanese language and script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003417268", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 38: Wayang and other texts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003417268
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003417268
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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236 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MSS_Jav_38 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1764
- End Date:
- 1764
- Date Range:
- 1764
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.
236 folios; European paper, watermarked 'Pro Patria'.
11-12 lines of various scripts per page; black ink.
Decoration: black ink sketches of wayang figures on ff. 176r-178r.
Binding: half brown leather binding with marbled paper boards; fore edge, head and tail are stained blue. Striped blue and white head and tail bands. Front board now detached; secured with string.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection (B-29), 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.
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)