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Add MS 12284
- Record Id:
- 040-002042042
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00010e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177009610.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12284
- Title:
- Sĕrat Rama Kĕling
- Scope & Content:
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Sĕrat Rama Kĕling, the Javanese version of the Ramayana.
F.ir.: konda Mĕlayu kikayat // pinindah ing basa Jawi / sinung gĕnding sandi warna / . . . . Said to be written at the royal wish (ing karsa Jĕng Nata) but neither the king nor the author are named. Dated duwi catur syara ratu [A.J. 1742/A.D. 1814]. On ff. 141v, 142v. are found numerical tables.
In Javanese language and script. In verse; 94 cantos. See Ricklefs, 1969, pp. 246.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042042 - Is part of:
- Add MS 12273-12401 : Collection of Oriental Manuscripts purchased from John Crawford, Esq., author of the " History of the Indian…
Add MS 12284 : Sĕrat Rama Kĕling - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0012]/040-002042042
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_12284 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1814
- End Date:
- 1814
- Date Range:
- 1814
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Yogyakarta, Java
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Dimensions: 235 x 175 mm.Decorated initial p. and canto headings, in colours and gilt. 256 ff. English paper: ‘S & C Wise 1815’.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from John Crawfurd, 1842.
- Publications:
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M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 45.
M.C. Ricklefs, ‘An inventory of the Javanese manuscript collection in the British Museum’, BKI, 1969, vol. 125, no. 2, pp. 241-62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)