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MSS Jav 30

Record Id:
032-004067345
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 30
Title:

Suluk and other texts

Scope & Content:

Suluk and other texts.

[This description from Ricklefs & Voorhoeve (1977: 61), before the volume was foliated; current folio numbers have now been added to the description of contents.]

A: pp. 6-109 [ff. 1v-52r]. A suluk dated 6 Ruwah A.J. 1665 [26 Oct. A.D. 1740]. European paper.

B: pp. 110-72 [ff. 52v-83r]. A suluk. European paper.

C: pp. 176-86 [ff. 84r-90v]. Described by Mackenzie as ‘List of all the kreeses [kriscs] and the names of the people who made them'. Dated, but without the year. Dutch paper, watermarked '[Ho]nig' (f. 84) and 'Z[oon]' (f. 91).

C1: ff. 96r-103r. Described by a Dutch note as histories of the first keris named Kie Pengarit and other old kerises of the Susuhunan [this description not included in RV].

D: pp. 190-236 [ff. 104r-127v]. Described by a Dutch note as a list of the gifts given by the Susuhunan and his family on the occasion of the marriage of Raden 'Soema Widjaya'. The text begins, punika pemut dawĕg kramanipun Bĕndara Raden Sumawiwaha. Javanese paper.

E: pp. 245-60 [ff. 132r- 140v]. A primbon containing rajah and tamba; a tract on medicine and magic in antique script. European paper, with writing parallel to the spine of the book; many magical diagrams.

In Javanese language and script.

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

140 folios; 1 volume

Digitised Content:
Languages:
Javanese
Scripts:
Javanese
Start Date:
1740
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
1740
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm.

140 folios; various papers. Original MS of parts A and B evidently much damaged, now repaired and re-margined with paper.

Binding: half brown leather with marbled paper boards, rebound in the BL in ca. 2000, probably replacing an early Mackenzie Ferris 1815 Calcutta binding also of half brown leather with marbled paper boards.

Source of Acquisition:
Mackenzie Collection (B-35), 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. 61.

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)