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Add MS 12346
- Record Id:
- 040-002042109
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00014e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101631432.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12346
- Title:
- Bugis poems
- Scope & Content:
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Poems, in Bugis language and script.
A: f. 1v. Short list of the poems in the MS.
B: ff. 2v.-67v. A series of fourteen short Buginese poems in tolo' style. Including an episode in the life of Matinroe riGucina, king of Bone, and the episode of the death of the king of Goa (Tu-nibatta) whose head was cut off in battle. (Both of these kings ruled in the mid-sixteenth century.) Later the story of La Padoma and We Mangkawani (ff. 26r-30r: Maténa I La Padoma; ff. 30r-46r: Rilarianna Wé Mangkawani). The same poems are in Add. 12353.
C: ff. 67v.-68v. Makasarese poem (sinrili') by Arung Palakka on his divorce from Arung Kaju and his coming to Goa to pay homage to the king. Cf. Add. 12373, ff. 47v.-48r.
D: f. 68v. Buginese war-song (elong-osĕng) by Daeng Manrupái.
(This description from Dr. A. A. Cense.)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
036-002042107
040-002042109 - 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 12345-12375 : 31 volumes in the Bugis and Arabic languages, captured in 1814, in the palace of the Rajah of Boni, in the island of Celebes
Add MS 12346 : Bugis poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0072]/036-002042107[0002]/040-002042109
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 69 folios; 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101631432.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Buginese
- Scripts:
- Buginese
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1814
- Date Range:
- 18th-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 340 x 220 mm.
69 ff., Dutch paper: 'D & C Blauw'; the final folio, of thin Chinese paper, is loose. 21 lines; black ink; original foliation on the top left corner of the verso of each folio.
Decoration: double decorated frames in black ink with some red ink embellishments on ff. 2v-3r; black ink floral motifs divide the poems, on ff. 7r, 12r, 19v, 26r, 30r, 46v, 50r, 52r, 54r, 55r, 56v, 61v, and 64v.
Binding: original covers of brown shiny paper on boards, with tooled frames and blind-stamped corner pieces and central medallions.
- Source of Acquisition:
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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. 27.
B.F. Matthes, Kort verslag aangaande alle mij in Europa bekende Makassaarsche en Boegineesche handschriften, vooral die van het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap te Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1875.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)