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MSS Jav 42

Record Id:
032-003418227
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 42
Title:

Primbon

Scope & Content:

A collection of primbon, bound together to make a single volume. This volume has been foliated as if it reads from left to right.

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 copyist named Kyahi Ngabehi Rĕsasĕntika of Yogyakarta is named, as well as Kangjĕng Gusti Pangeran Dipasana ingkang matĕdani sĕrat.

A: ff. 16r-1r (RV: 16 ff.), bound upside down. Various notes, e.g. sirĕp, secret names of animals (aran ing macan, aran ing kidang). Mackenzie's no. ‘f'.

B: ff. 26v-17v (RV: 12 ff). A Malay fragment on sĕmbahyang and puasa.

C: ff. 36r-29v (RV: 8 ff). Mysticism; explanation of the name Muhammad (its letters being connected with those of the word Allah). Mackenzie's no. ‘z’.

D: ff. 53r-38v (RV: 16 ff), with a cover of Javanese paper. ‘Primbone’ [sic], containing texts on mysticism, etc. Mackenzie's no. ‘y’.

E: ff. 65v-57r (RV: 10 ff). A text on chronology, and on the confession of faith. Mackenzie's no. ‘w’.

F: ff. 106r-68v (RV: 38 ff)‚ with a cover of Javanese paper. ‘Primbone’, e.g. the magic names of iron and steel. At the end, the first part of a Shaṭṭārīyah silsilah in perpendicular Javanese script. Mackenzie's no. ‘v'.

G: ff. 123r-113r (RV: 16 ff). ‘Primbone'. Mackenzie's no. 'r'.

H: ff. 139v-127r (RV: 16 ff). ‘Primbone', e.g. donga and jimat. Mackenzie's no. ‘fs'.

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

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

139 folios

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

Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.

139 ff. The individual sections are written on Dutch paper, watermarked 'Pro Patre' (f. 3), 'Vryhyt' (f. 109), and have mostly been provided with title pages of Javanese paper (dluwang). Black ink, with rubrication in parts. Many mystical diagrams in 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-25), 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], pp. 34-35. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107

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