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Record Id:
040-002042122
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002042030
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00015a
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100126478155.0x000001
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12358
Title:
Bugis treatises on fire-arms and gunnery
Scope & Content:

A collection of small Buginese treatises and teachings on firearms, gunnery, ballistics, pyrotechnics, gunpowder, and weights: A: ff. 3v.-11v. A treatise on gunnery by the chief artillerist of the king of Kasatela (Spain), Andarae Ri Monyona. A Buginese translation from a Makasarese translation of the original treatise. The Buginese translator says that a Makasarese explanation was given in A.H. 1045 [A.D. 1635], seventy-two years after the original (Spanish) text had been composed, and that a Makasarese text was written in A.H. 1063 [A.D. 1652]. The text deals with various models of guns and contains many tables with calculations. B: ff. 12-13r. Tables of the range of various guns. C: ff. 13v.-18v. Treatise on gunnery by Abransu Farguru from the country of Sali.g.rwaisi. His father was from Hauri [?] and his mother was born in Lisabuzvwah (Lisbon). D: f. 19r. Teachings of Pahalajun Aḥmad, chief of the artillerists in Ajam (Persia?), and of Maharajalela in Indarĕgiri, dealing with the correlation between the weight of shot and the quantity of powder to be used. E: f. 19v. Teachings of Ance' Lati' (Ĕnci' Latif) to his son Dato' Mahraja Lela Marala (?) about the four principles of firing. F: ff. 21r.-27v. Teachings of Haji Bankatasi chief artillerist in Istanbul, a native of An[a]doli (Turkish Anadolu, i.e. Anatolia), whose mother was a jin and whose father was a Rūḥ (? Rūm) named Ayinggasi (?). Certainly Haji Bektash, the famous founder of the Bektashi order and the spiritual source of inspiration of the corps of Janissaries, is meant. G: ff. 27v.-35v. Teachings of Juan Di Moya, the teacher of Simau Mubalairu, dealing with various weights used in gunnery, followed by tables demonstrating the range of guns. H: ff. 35v.-37v. On tempering of metals and on gunpowder.

Scattered throughout the MS and in a different (and apparently later) hand are several notes. Several deal with kutikas, divinatory diagrams, magic formulae, etc (on ff. 2r„ 3r., 12v., 13r., 20, 26r., 28v„ 30r., 35v.),

See Matthes, 1875, p. 94. Cf. Add. 12365. (This description from Dr. A. A. Cense)

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002042030
036-002042107
040-002042122
Is part of:
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Add MS 12358 : Bugis treatises on fire-arms and gunnery
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
37 folios; 1 volume
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Buginese
Scripts:
Buginese
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1814
Date Range:
18th-early 19th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 270 x 21 mm.

37 ff. Dutch paper: ‘J H & Zoon'.13 lines per page; black ink, with rubrication.

Very soiled first and last folios, implying lack of original binding.

Illustrations of the bores of guns, and various divinatory diagrams in black ink.

Binding: half brown leather binding, with orange 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. 29.

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
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