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MSS Jav 41

Record Id:
032-003418218
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003418218
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 41
Title:

Primbon

Scope & Content:

A collection of primbon, bound together to make a single volume.

The description of the contents below is taken from Ricklefs & Voorhoeve 1977: 63-64. At the time the MS was unfoliated, and so in this catalogue entry the current foliation is given first, with reference to the RV foliation in brackets.

A: ff. 4v-40v (RV: E, 37 ff.). A Javanese tract with Arabic texts of prayers and formulae to be recited in ṣalāt. European paper, watermarked '...DARY'[?]. Black ink, with rubrication. Mackenzie's annotation: 'Manner of performing ablutions', but no Mackenzie number.

B: ff. 42r-43r (RV: E, 4 ff.). A Javanese tract with Arabic texts of prayers and formulae to be recited in ṣalāt. Javanese paper. Mackenzie's annotation: 'Manner of performing ablutions', but no Mackenzie number. Thick European paper, watermarked '... ONGN'

C: ff. 46v-146r (RV: D, 103 ff.). A copy of Sifat al-nabī in Arabic, Paras Nabi, amulets, etc. There is a note on f. 46r saying punika kagungan primbon Raden Tumĕnggung, but the name is not given. European paper. Mackenzie’s no. ‘p’.

D: ff. 150v-158r (RV: C, 11 ff.). Sifat al-nabī in Arabic, cf. Voorhoeve, 1957, p. 336. Mackenzie’s no. ‘n’. Javanese paper; decorated frames in black ink on ff. 150v-151r; text set in double-ruled frames of black ink.

E: ff. 160r-174v (RV: B, 16 ff.). The main text is a Javanese translation of Kitab Sittīn in Asmaradana metre, (cf. Voorhoeve, 1957, p. 342.) Javanese paper. Mackenzie's no. ‘u’.

F: ff. 178v-236r (RV: A, 61 ff.). Various texts in various hands, the longest text is in Arabic (salawāt) with an incomplete interlinear Javanese translation. European paper. Mackenzie’s no. ‘t’.

In Arabic and Javanese language and pegon (Arabic) script.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Javanese manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

236 folios

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Languages:
Arabic
Javanese
Scripts:
Arabic
Javanese
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
late 18th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 210 x 130 mm.

236 ff; various European and Javanese (dluwang) papers. Black ink.

Binding: half brown leather binding with marbled paper boards. Outer edges stained blue. Red and white striped head and tail bands.

Source of Acquisition:
Mackenzie Collection (A-24), 1823
Information About Copies:
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Publications:

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

P. Voorhoeve, Handlist of Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other Collections in the Netherlands. Leiden, 1957.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)