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Add MS 12340
- Record Id:
- 040-002042099
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000146
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177196627.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12340
- Title:
- Facsimile of a Kawi inscription
- Scope & Content:
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‘Fac-simile, in pencil, of an ancient manuscript in the Kawi character, found at Tagala, in the province of Cheribon [Cirĕbon].’
Crawfurd, 1820, vol. ii‚ pp. 216-17 says, ‘from the figures, signs of the zodiac, and other characters painted upon it, it is conjectured to be a treatise on astrology’. Dr. J. Noorduyn says of this MS, ‘as far as it can be understood, the language is chiefly Javanese (or old Javanese) but with some influence of Sundanese’, and he suggests it may relate to divination for agrarian purposes. It seems to be pre-Muslim, and the original might therefore have been 16th century or earlier.
Comprising three sheets of paper, labelled a, b and c.
Cf. MSS Jav. 96, which is apparently a copy of the same MS.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Javanese manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042099 - 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 12340 : Facsimile of a Kawi inscription - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0068]/040-002042099
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100177196627.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Javanese
Old Javanese - Scripts:
- Javanese
Latin - Start Date:
- 1814
- End Date:
- 1814
- Date Range:
- 1814
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Three sheets of European paper: (a) 365 x 95 mm, folded into 13 folios; (b) 365 × 100 mm, folded into 14 folios; (c) 395 x 100 mm, folded into 21 folios.
- 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. 53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)