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MSS Jav 40
- Record Id:
- 032-003418184
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003418184
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062356459.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177203128.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 40
- Title:
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Babad Kartasura
- Scope & Content:
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Babad Kartasura
Described by Mackenzie as ‘history of the Prince Truno Jaya [Trunajaya] and the Weerapatty [Surapati] until the elevation of Pangerang Pooger to the Emperor [Pangeran Pugĕr, Pakubuwana I (170319)]’. Begins, after a poem, carita babad tinĕlad nusya Jawa duk bĕdah ing Mĕtawis.
Dated 26 Sapar guna pinaka turongga jalma [A.J. 1723/ 31 Aug. A.D. 1796].
An entry on the flyleaf states that the MS came from Rothenbuhler at Surabaya. This may be the original of the English translation in Mackenzie 1822 collection 21 (Blagden, 1916, p. 16).
In Javanese language and script. In verse; 39 cantos.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003418184", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 40: Babad Kartasura" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003418184
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003418184
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume; 406 pages
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1796
- End Date:
- 1796
- Date Range:
- 1796
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Java
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 200 x 160 mm.
406 pp; Dutch paper, watermarked 'Pro Patria', with endpapers only of Javanese paper (cf. Ricklefs & Voorhoeve 1977: 63, where it is stated that this manuscript is written on Javanese paper).
13 lines of script per page; black ink.
Decoration: illuminated opening double frames on ff. 4v-5r in red, blue, yellow and black ink; rubricated in red ink, with some elaborate floral or zoomorphic canto markers.
Binding: half brown leather binding with marbled paper boards.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection (B-6), 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. 63.
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. 9. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)