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MSS Jav 86
- Record Id:
- 032-004062751
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004062751
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100138594576.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177207340.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 86
- Title:
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Sĕrat Kanda
- Scope & Content:
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Sĕrat Kanda.
Begins with Prabu Basudewa of Mandura; incomplete at the end. on the inside yasanipun Kangjĕng Raden Adipati Sasra Adiningrat [Sasradiningrat II, patih of Surakarta 1812-46], with the date 19 Bĕsar A.J. 1740 [13 Dec. A.D. 1813]. The text itself begins on p. 18 and is dated 29 Bĕsar sirnaning kang catur rĕsi ning jalmi [A.J. 1740/25 Dee. A.D. 1813]. In verse.
On p. 3 there begins a fragment of what seems to be a copy of a letter to Hugh Hope, Civil Commissioner of East Java. It mentions Raden Adipati Sasra Adiningrat, Raden Panji Sura¬dilaga, Raden Tumĕnggung Yudanĕgara, and Kyahi Tumĕnggung Mangkuyuda. It is dated 19 Ruwah A.J. 1739 [28 July A.D. 1812].
In Javanese language and script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004062751", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 86: Sĕrat Kanda" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004062751
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004062751
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume; 249 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 410 x 280 mm.
249 ff.; Javanese paper (dluwang). In various hands; black ink; 21 lines per page.
Binding: original brown full leather bindings with six stanped frame bands, corner pieces and a central medallion. New spine. Fly leaves of English paper, 'J Whatman'. The volume has a newly-renovated leather spine, but the original leather spine, with stamped bands and circular and bud-shaped motifs, is preserved in the manuscript.
Housed in a brown buckram box.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mackenzie Collection? (Mackenzie had already left Java before the date of the SĕratKanda).
- 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. 70.
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. 33. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)