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Add MS 12308
- Record Id:
- 040-002042066
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000126
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12308
- Title:
- Babad, wiwit suwung ing tanah Jawi
- Scope & Content:
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A: ff. 1-210. Babad, wiwit suwung ing tanah Jawi dumugi babaripun Kanjeng Panĕmbahan Purubaya. Begins with Adam and ends abruptly in the reign of Senapati after the birth of Raden Umbaran [i.e. apparently Pan. Purubaya]. Written in the Mangkubumen, Yogyakarta. Dated A.J. 1740 [A.D. 1813]. Several cantos are individually dated, from A.J. 1736 to 1738 [A.D. 1809-11]. In verse; 63 cantos. This text is discussed in Ricklefs, 1974, pp. 242-4.
B: ff. 211-14. An order of the British Administration of Java concerning currency matters (in Javanese), dated A.J. 1741 [A.D. 1813], on the back of which is a text about Raja Sinḍula.
In Javanese language and script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042066 - 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 12308 : Babad, wiwit suwung ing tanah Jawi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0036]/040-002042066
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 214 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12308 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1813
- End Date:
- 1813
- Date Range:
- 1813
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 340 x 235 mm.
214 ff; Javanese paper (dluwang).
2--22 lines per page, several different hands, black ink.
Binding: Full brown Javanese leather binding, with six stamped frames, and corner pieces and central medallion, with green, red and white head and tailbands. Red leather on spine with shelfmark and title added in British Museum. - 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. 109.
M.C. Ricklefs, Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749-1792: a history of the division of Java. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)