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Add MS 12373
- Record Id:
- 040-002042137
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000169
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100126479729.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12373
- Title:
- Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799
- Scope & Content:
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Diary running from Jan. 1793 to Dec. 1799 (a further year, presumably 1800, is filled in but without the year stated). The diarist must have been a person living in the immediate vicinity of the king of Bone. He reports upon meetings of the members of the high State College, and on events in the wars in which Bone was involved. He makes further notes about happenings at the court or in the surroundings of the palace, e.g. visits, cases of running amuck, etc. Among the diary notes are found the following items: 10 April 1793, the king goes to his benteng (fortification); 24 Jan. 1795, the Ponggawa Bajo (chief of the Bajo seanomads) together with his lolo (subchief) appear at court to pay homage to the king and to bring their kasiwiang (tribute) of money, talibo (a kind of shellfish) and fish. Other notes in the MS include: Messages of Tanete and Sidenreng in answer to messages sent by the Arumpone (f. 2r). Words which have been agreed between the state councils of Bone, Soppeng, and Luwu' and the Arumpone of Bone, the Datu of Soppeng, and the Datu of Luwu' (f. 16r). Salli (usallī) formulae (f. 15v). Notes on auspicious and inauspicious months (ff. 2v.-3r., 94r). On auspicious and inauspicious days, according to what happened on those days to Hawa (Eve), Shu'sib, Pir'swn (Pharaoh), and others (f. 28v). Notes on the years of the eight-year cycle (f. 93v). Various Buginese tolo' poems, that on f. 52v. being a sitta'-sittakkĕng (ff. 48v., 49v.-50r., 51 v., 52v., 69v., 81v., 82v). Buginese poem in La Galigo metre (ff. 46v.-47r.). Tolo' poems made by Arung Palakka, those on ff. 84v.-85r., 86v.-87r. being sitta’-sittahkĕng (ff. 57v.-60v., 61v., 62v., 84v.-85r., 86v.-87r). Buginese war songs (ff. 55v.-56r., 69v). Rules for persons who pay homage to the Arumpone (ff. 54v.-55r). Cf. Or. 8154. Makasarese poem (sinrili') by Arung Palakka on the occasion of his divorce from Arung Kaju (ff. 47v.-48r). Cf. Add. 12346 (G). Makasarese love poem (sinrili’) (f. 8ov). Treatise on signs of fighting cocks (ff. 80v.-81r). An astronomical, meteorological, and agricultural calendar (ff. 94v.-106r). Tables of the old Buginese twenty-day chronological system (bilangduappulo) (ff. 106v.-108r). Table of the old Buginese nine-day system (bilang-aserá) (f. 108r.). Again the bilang-duappulo and bilang-aserá (f. 108v). The bilang-duappulo, bilang-lima (five-day system), and bilang-tĕllu (three-day system) (f. 109v).
In Bugis language and script.
(This description from Dr. A. A. Cense)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
036-002042107
040-002042137 - 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 12373 : Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0072]/036-002042107[0028]/040-002042137
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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110 folios; 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100126479729.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Buginese
- Scripts:
- Buginese
- Start Date:
- 1793
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1793-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 265 x 210 mm.
Paper: European paper, watermarked 'VDL', with chainline shadows. Black and red ink.
Between ff. 32 and 33 is a cut-out piece of paper in the shape of a lotus bud.
Floral decoration in black ink on f. 76v.
Binding: full brown leather European binding, with stamped corner pieces and medallion in emulation of the Islamic style.
- 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. 33.
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, p. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)