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MSS Jav 73
- Record Id:
- 032-004073417
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004073417
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100140319169.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177438634.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Jav 73
- Title:
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Javanese account of the Prophets & their wars
- Scope & Content:
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A note in English correctly describes this text as ‘Account of the Prophets & their wars'. The first part is a Carita satus. Then follows, with the opening text set in ruled frames on ff. 5v-6r, an account of the life of Muhammad and his descendants, ending abruptly with the marriage of Husain and Sĕribanun.
In Javanese language and Arabic (pegon) script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Javanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004073417", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Jav 73: Javanese account of the Prophets & their wars" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004073417
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004073417
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume; 400 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=MSS_Jav_73 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- 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: 315 x 205 mm. 400 ff, Dutch paper, watermarked ‛M Schouten & Comp', and Javanese (dluwang) endpapers. Black ink with red rubrication; 13 lines per page; decorative canto headings in red ink.
Binding: Original Javanese brown leather front cover only, with gilded central medallion, bud-shaped ornament and two corner pieces still evident, scuffed and in poor condition; back cover is plain brown leather, perhaps a European addition.
- Custodial History:
- Old number: IO 2662
- Source of Acquisition:
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Mackenzie collection (A-2), 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)