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Add MS 12338
- Record Id:
- 040-002042096
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000144
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12338
- Title:
- Pawukon
- Scope & Content:
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'A Pawukon, or Treatise on Judicial Astrology, in Javanese. A miscellaneous collection of items on dating, sengkalas, etc., part in verse, part in prose.
Between ff. 79r and 135r are depicted 29 coloured figures of the gods and goddesses associated with the wukus, such as Yang Kuwera, Yang Brama, Betara Siwah, Yang Durga, Dewi Sri, etc., with a short note dedicated to each. The text begins, Lambang wuku taun Alip sarta amawi sengkala derapon aja kasupen daweg Alip sirah tiga tanggal [sic, i.e. tenggak?] kalih punika [perhaps AJ 1723 / AD 1796].
The canto beginning on f. 25r is dated rupa ardi guna papat [AJ 1734 / AD 1807]. The regular progression of dates at the beginning of other cantos suggests number-games rather than dating, but it is difficult to be certain. They progress from AJ 1724 [AD 1797] to AJ 1738 [AD 1811], but reach AJ 1736 [AD 1809] immediately before the date AJ 1724 / AD 1807 is clearly given as the date of writing on f. 25r.
On ff. 139v-140r are doodled images of wayang figures in black ink.
There are a considerable number of blank folios in this volume. Mostly these have been digitised, but those between ff. 77v and 78r (35 blank folios) and between ff. 135v-136r (26 blank folios) have not been included in this digital record of the book.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042096 - 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 12338 : Pawukon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0066]/040-002042096
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume; 140 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12338 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Javanese
- Scripts:
- Javanese
- Start Date:
- 1807
- End Date:
- 1807
- Date Range:
- 1807
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 270 x 210 mm. 140 ff; Javanese paper (dluwang); many blank pages have been left unfoliated. Black ink; 17 lines per page; small neat quadratic hand; evidence of dry-ruled guide lines, including on blank pages.
Binding: Full brown leather Javanese binding, with stamped frames and ornaments. The front cover bears a metal clasp fitting in the middle, suggesting there was once an envelope flap, but this is no longer present. Similar bindings are found on Add. 12312 and Add. 12307.
- 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. 52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)