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Add MS 12309
- Record Id:
- 040-002042067
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000127
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12309
- Title:
- Menak Amir Hamza
- Scope & Content:
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Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese story of the adventures of Amir Hamza, uncle of the prophet Muhammad.
Written for Ratu Ageng (c. 1730-1803), a wife of Sultan Hamengku Buwana I and the mother of Hamengku Buwana II, some time after 1792. In the introduction she is called prabu wanodeya / kang jumeneng Ratu Agung / kang ngedhaton Tegalreja /, 'the female monarch / who reigns as Ratu Agung / and has her palace in Tegalreja'. Ratu Ageng was a daughter of an Islamic scholar and was known as a devout Muslim.
Niemann, 1861, p. 480, says that the government of Abdul Mutalib in Mecca is discussed at the beginning; later stories concerning Amir Hamza are told.
In Javanese in Arabic script (pegon).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042067 - 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 12309 : Menak Amir Hamza - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0037]/040-002042067
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 1520 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12309 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1792
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Dimensions: 287 x 217 mm.
1,520 folios; Javanese paper (dluwang).
Due to its enormous size, there was an error in the original foliation, which jumps from 449 to 500. The last numbered folio is 1564 [i.e. 1514 numbered folios], and there are 5 unnumbered folios between ff. 3 and 4, and one final blank folio at the end of the volume. The total number of folios in the volume is therefore 1520. This is the thickest manuscript codex in the British Library (i.e. the manuscript with the largest number of folios bound into a single volume).
In the digital surrogate, f. 1000 has been numbered as f. 999a. Ff. 1001-1564 are treated as flysheets and numbered with Roman numerals i-dxliv. The final leaf is an unnumbered flysheet.
13 lines per page, black ink.
Binding: Full brown leather Javanese binding, with stamped frame and ornaments, originally with envelope flap (now missing) and metal clasps. 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. 48.
A.T. Gallop with B. Arps, Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia (London: British Library; Jakarta: Lontar, 1991), p. 101.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)