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Add MS 12315
- Record Id:
- 040-002042073
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00012d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12315
- Title:
- Primbon
- Scope & Content:
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Assorted texts on religious subjects, legends of Muslim religious heroes, physiognomy, etc.; i.e. a Primbon.
In Javanese and Arabic (pegon) script.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042073 - 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 12315 : Primbon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0043]/040-002042073
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 213 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12315 (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: 225 x 185 mm.
213 ff; Javanese paper (dluwang).
Various hands, black ink with rubrication.
The volume has been foliated from right to left, and in sequence, but ff. 1-22, and ff. 89v-213v are upside down.
Binding: Full brown leather binding, with stamped frame and ornaments, in emulation of the Javanese style, probably bound in the British Museum bindery, but perhaps with original 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:
- M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 49.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)