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Add MS 12380
- Record Id:
- 040-002042144
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x000170
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12380
- Title:
- Syair Mesa Gumitar
- Scope & Content:
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In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Mesa Gumitar, containing the story of a king of Kuripan in Java, apparently related to the Panji stories. Probably a versification of the Hikayat Mesa Gumitar. On the title page called Syair Kera Emas, 'The poem of the Golden Monkey'.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042144 - 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 12380 : Syair Mesa Gumitar - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0077]/040-002042144
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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55 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12380 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Malay
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1842
- Date Range:
- 18th century-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 55 ff. Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm. 15 lines per page, in two columns; black ink, with some reading marks in pencil; catchwords on each folio. Hand changes from f.8r to f.8v. Laid paper with brush strokes, prob. Chinese. Full brown leather binding, with ruled frames and intersecting lines across the middle, with stamped medallions at the corners and centre.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from John Crawfurd, 1842.
- Publications:
- M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.108.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)