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Add MS 12305
- Record Id:
- 040-002042063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000123
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12305
- Title:
- Sĕrat Nawawi
- Scope & Content:
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A: ff. 1r.-195r. Sĕrat Nawawi, a Javanese verse translation of al-Rānīrī's Bustān al-Salāṭīn, books IV and V (see Voorhoeve, 1956).
B: ff. 195v.-209r. A Javanese adaptation of the Arabic al-Tuḥfa al-mursala ilā rūḥ al-Nabī by Muḥammad ibn Faḍl Allāh al-Burhānpūrī. Edited and translated in Johns, 1965. Said to have been written in Tĕgalarum.
C: ff. 209r.-227v. Mystical teachings. In verse; 6 cantos.
In Javanese in Arabic script (pegon).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042063 - 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 12305 : Sĕrat Nawawi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0033]/040-002042063
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 230 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12305 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 270 x 195 mm.
230 ff; Javanese paper (dluwang).
13 lines per page, black ink.
Decoration: some doodles of peacocks on f.1; decorated stanza markers.
Binding: Full brown Javanese leather binding, with five stamped frames, and corner pieces and central medallion, and floral ornaments on spine, envelope flap with metal clasp, with red and white head and tailbands. Red leather on spine with shelfmark and title added in British Museum (upside down on volume). - Source of Acquisition:
- 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. 48.
A.H. Johns (ed. and transl.), The Gift Addressed to the Spirit of the Prophet. Canberra, 1965.
P. Voorhoeve, 'Javaansche teksten over mystiek.' BKI, 1956, vol. 112, no.4, p. 416.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)