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Record Id:

040-002042114

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002042030

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000153

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 12351

Title:

Documents in Makasarese

Scope & Content:

Copies of documents in Makasarese, written in the so-called Old Makasarese characters. The volume contains various items:

Sayings of former princes (ff. 16 v, 12v).

Disjointed notes on right behaviour and customary law (ff. 1-2).

Legal texts (ff. 3v-11v).

On the status of the countries of the island of Sumbawa which were subdued by Tumenanga riAgamana, king of Tallo' and co-ruler of Goa in the beginning of the 17th century (f. 34v).

Treaties between Goa and Bone, and between Goa and Tallo' in the 16th century (ff. 16v, 12v).

Declarations of war (ff. 16r-15v).

Formulae used in various circumstances (f. 15r).

Texts concerning the history of the following areas: Goa, up to and including the reign of Tu-menanga riPapambatuna (1649-53) (ff. 33r-24r); Tallo', up to and including the reign of Tu-mammalianga riTimoro' (1636-41) (ff. 24r-19r); Sanrabone (f. 19); Maros (f. 18v); Bangkala' (f. 18r).

And texts on the ancestors of Karaeng Cenrana (f. 18) and of Tu-menanga riLakiung (lived 1652-1709) (f. 17v).

(This description from Dr A. A. Cense.)

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002042030
036-002042107
040-002042114

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Add MS 12351 : Documents in Makasarese

Hierarchy:

032-002042030[0072]/036-002042107[0008]/040-002042114

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume; 35 folios

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Languages:

Makasar

Scripts:

Makasar

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

18th century-early 19th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 41 x 255 mm. 35 ff.; European paper, watermarked 'I Villedary', 'SCK. Around 31 lines per page; black-brown ink, with some headings in red. Ruled borders and columns.

Ff. 35v-12v are bound in upside down.

Binding: Half brown leather binding with marbled paper boards.

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. 99.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)