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MSS Jav 70
- Record Id:
- 032-004073416
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004073416
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100140318201.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177247707.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 70
- Title:
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Various tracts in Javanese on religious ethics
- Scope & Content:
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Various tracts on religious ethics:
A: ff. 2v.-40r. A tract in three chapters with Arabic titles. Bāb 1, on neglecting ṣalāt (ritual prayer). Bāb 2 on disobedience to parents. Bāb 3 on wine drinking.
B: ff. 40v.-46r. After a new basmala, a mystical and ethical interpretation of salāt.
C: ff. 46v.-63r. After another basmala, a piece of moral advice beginning with a conversation of Moses with God.
D: ff. 63r.-v. After another basmala, a short note on the origin of the human body.
E: ff. 63v.-68v. After another basmala, on colours seen in sakarat al-maut.
F: ff. 68v.-70v. After another basmala, an explanation of allegories such as tunjung tanpa talaga (a lotus without a pond).
G: ff. 70v.-75r. After another basmala, on knowledge of self, with (on f. 75r) a schematic table of 'ishq, ‘āshiq, ma‘shūq.
Similar texts follow these, e.g. explanations of the letters of the shahāda (confession of faith) and (on f. 85v) a bāb niat.
In Javanese language and Arabic (pegon) script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004073416", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 70: Various tracts in Javanese on religious ethics" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004073416
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004073416
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume; 94 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_jav_70 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Javanese - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1750
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- Late 18th-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm. 94 ff, Dutch paper, watermarked ‘Honig', ‘JH & Z', ‘Pieter de Vries', and Javanese (dluwang) endpapers. Black ink; 9 lines per page.
Some mystical diagrams.
Binding: Original Javanese full brown leather binding with five stamped frame bands, corner pieces and central medallion.
- Custodial History:
- Old number: IO 2514
- Source of Acquisition:
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Mackenzie collection (A-18), 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. 69.
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)