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MSS Jav 50
- Record Id:
- 032-004073408
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004073408
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100140298865.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177204769.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 50
- Title:
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A collection of primbons
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of primbons bound together to make a single volume:
A: 24 ff. Texts in Malay with vowel signs; the language shows some Javanese peculiarities, owner Baba Salihin kampung Mataram(an). Eur paper. Beginning: do‘a, dairah, etc., some in red ink. On f. 6v. are three fish with one head, as in Pigeaud, 1967-70, plate 8. On f. 7v. begins a Shaṭṭārīya pedigree of masters, beginning bĕrmula inilah kitab pada mĕnyatakakĕn turun-turun jalan Shaṭāriyah yang tĕdak dari Rasulullah. It ends with Shaikh Abdurrauf yang anak ‘Ali yang bangsa Shaikh Hamzah Fanṣūr dĕngan Singkil nĕgĕrinya— Haji ‘Abdulmuḥyi, Karang—his son Shaikh Haji ‘Abdullah, Karang—his grandson Panambahan Mas Nida Muhammad Maḥyā, Karang— Tuan Haji Nur Ahmad, Tĕgal—Ĕnci’ Salihin Batawiyah nĕgĕrinya Mataraman kampungnya. Various texts, e.g. the signs of approaching death and the colours seen by a dying man; Arabic formulae to be used in rice cultivation, cf. MSS Jav. 77.
B: 30 ff. Eur. paper. Mackenzie's no. ‘j’. Javanese texts in Arabic script (pegon), e.g. punika sharah du‘a ismu’l-a‘ẓam patang puluh, punika tartantune asmā'u’l-ḥusnā sangang puluh sanga saking Shaikh Barīzī, rong puluh sipat.
C: 38 ff. Arabic litanies in praise of saints (Haji ‘Abdulmuhyi and others), niat formulae for ritual purification, continued in Javanese, with Arabic formulae. At the end an unidentified Javanese text. Eur paper. Mackenzie's no. ‘k’.
D: 28 ff. Mostly Arabic texts on du‘ā’, risāla ‘an ta’wīl ar-ru’ya; Qur’ānic verses, some with interlinear Javanese versions; a Javanese text on niat. Javanese paper. Mackenzie's no. ‘c’.
E: 32 ff. Correctly described in a note as verses from the Qur’ān for children to learn. Javanese paper.
F: 63 ff. Eur paper. Mackenzie's no. 'd':
F 1: Arabic text on the pilgrimage, beginning al-ḥamdu lillāhi ‘lladhī farrada ‘alainā ‘l-hajja wa’l-‘umrata, partly with an interlinear Javanese translation. At the end are drawings of holy places in Medinah.
F 2: Javanese texts on a‘yān thābitah, etc., at the end called Rūḥ; on the chapters of the Qur'ān; on the three ‘ālam; on the alphabet, identified with the Prophet; on do‘a; niat manjing Shaṭṭārīyah.
In Javanese language and Arabic (pegon) script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004073408", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 50: A collection of primbons" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004073408
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004073408
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume; 214 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Javanese
Malay - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1750
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- Late 18th-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 215 x 125 mm. 214 ff, various European and Javanese paper (dluwang) . Black ink. Several folios have been re-margined.
Binding: Ferris 1815 Calcutta half brown leather binding with marbled paper boards.
- Custodial History:
- Old number: IO 2613
- Source of Acquisition:
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Mackenzie collection (A-22), 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. 64.
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. 22. 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)