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Add MS 12325
- Record Id:
- 040-002042083
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000137
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12325
- Title:
- Bĕksa jĕmparing text
- Scope & Content:
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A: ff. 1r.-9v. Begins, kawarnaha ingkang mulih ki Dĕmang Astrawijaya. Perhaps a Panji text? In verse; 7 cantos.
B 1: ff. 10r.-25r. Bĕksa jĕmparing text, taken from kagĕngan-dalĕm Sĕrat Surya Raja. Also called Sĕrat Konḍa and Sĕrat Gĕnḍing Bĕksan. The reference in Ricklefs, 1969, p. 252, to Sĕrat Purwa Raja is a mistake. Discussed in Ricklefs, 1974, pp. 192-3. Cf. MSS Jav. 58.
B 2: ff. 26v.-43r. Bĕksa jĕbĕng text, taken from kagĕngan-dalĕm Sĕrat Surya Raja. Included with B I under the titles Sĕrat Konḍa and Sĕrat Gĕnḍing Bĕksan. Discussed in Ricklefs, 1974, pp. 192-3. Cf. MSS Jav. 58.
C: ff. 44v.-49v. Sĕngkala-list. The first date is śāka 1018 [A.D. 1096], the last is A.J. 1741 [A.D. 1813]. Engl paper: ‘Budgen & Wilmott 1809'. Employed in Ricklefs, 1974.
D: f. 50v. Sajarahipun ing para nata ingkang luluhur ing para ratu ing nusa Jawi sadaya awit saking Kangjĕng Nabi Adam. A list of sixty-three names, the last being Hamĕngkubuwana IV [A.D. 1814-22]. The bottom of the page has been cut off in binding and more lines have been lost thereby. English paper: ‘Budgen & Wilmott 1809'.
In Javanese language and script. The whole volume is probably from Yogyakarta.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042083 - 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 12325 : Bĕksa jĕmparing text - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0053]/040-002042083
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 50 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12325 (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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Dimensions: 310 x 195 mm.
50 ff; English paper, watermarked 'Budgen & Wilmott 1809', 'B&W 1809'; ff. 2-3 watermarked '1814'.
Endpapers of Javanese paper (dluwang).
Various hands, squarish script, black ink.
Binding: Full brown leather binding, with stamped frame and ornaments, in emulation of the Javanese style, probably bound in the British Museum bindery, but possibly 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. 51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)