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MSS Jav 98

Record Id:
032-004073413
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004073413
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LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Jav 98
Title:

Fragments in Javanese, Malay and Arabic

Scope & Content:

Fragments in Javanese, Malay and Arabic.

A: ff. 1r-2r. Romanized Malay fragment on Javanese history, 1677-1755. 2 ff.

B: Malay fragment on the medicinal use of river water. 1 large sheet of paper originally folded into four to give four folios, three of which have writing on them. 4 ff.

C: ‘Translation of two inscriptions at Magelan & Chandin [Magĕlang and Canḍi] into Modern Javanese—by the Crown Prince's Secretary.’ Javanese. 4 ff.

D: Fragment in Javanese, identified by Weatherbee, forthcoming, as from a Sĕrat Gonda Kusuma. Dated A.J. 1742 [A.D. 1815]. 7 ff.

E: Javanese list of words used in sĕngkalas. Dated in Surabaya, 1814. 4 ff.

F: Javanese. Pratelanipun abdi-dalĕm Bupati ing Surakarta sĕdaya, with sizes of appanages. Also lists of the holdings and subjects of individual dignitaries. 24 ff.

G: Javanese. List of the family of Kramawijaya of Surabaya. 1 f.

H: Javanese. Carriagepost agreement (kapal pos) between the British government of Java and the Bupatis of Tĕgal, Barĕbĕs, and Pama¬lang, A.D. 1814. 2 ff.

I: Javanese. Carriagepost agreement (kapal pos) between the British government of Java and the Bupatis of Pĕkalongan and Batang, A.D. 1814. 2 ff.

J: Javanese. Carriagepost agreement (pos kareta) between the British government of Java and Sultan Sĕpuh and Sultan Anem of Cirĕbon, A.D. 1814. 1 f.

K: Javanese. Carriagepost agreement (kapal pos) between the British government of Java and the Bupati of Tuban. 3 ff. 2 copies.

L: Malay proclamation on the victory of the British forces. 1 f.

M: Arabic with interlinear Malay translation. Document announcing the arrival in Muscat of a party from Penang in the ship of Sayid Husain Aidid. 1 f.

N: Fragments in Arabic, in various hands, some calligraphic. 8 ff.

O: Malay, fragment of a terasul, with sample portions of letters from the Sultan Ratu of Palembang to the Governor-General and Raad van Indie in Batavia. 2 ff.

P: Folder, labelled ‘Javan Antiquities & History'. 2 ff.

[Parts L-O not listed in RV 1977: 72.]

In Javanese language and script, with notes in English and Dutch.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Javanese manuscripts
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Hierarchy:
032-004073413
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

68 folios

Digitised Content:
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_jav_98 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
English
Javanese
Scripts:
Javanese
Latin
Start Date:
1815
End Date:
1815
Date Range:
1815
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 330 x 220 mm. 68 ff; various European papers.

Boxed.

Source of Acquisition:

Origin uncertain, perhaps from Raffles.

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. 72.

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

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