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Add MS 12390
- Record Id:
- 040-002042155
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002042030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00017b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12390
- Title:
- Syair Makrifat
- Scope & Content:
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In Malay in Jawi script. Syair Makrifat, narrative poem on Islamic doctrine and the transience of worldly goods; incomplete at end.
The colophon (f.23v) gives date of copying as 24 Zulhijah (no year) and name of the scribe and owner of the MS as Da'ut (wa-katibuhu Da'ut yang empunnya syair ini), with instructions to borrowers to take good care of the MS and to return it promptly. A scribbled note on f.1r has the date 1222 (AD 1807/8).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002042030
040-002042155 - 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 12390 : Syair Makrifat - Hierarchy:
- 032-002042030[0088]/040-002042155
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 12273-12401
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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23 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12390 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Malay
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1840
- Date Range:
- Early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 23 ff. Dimensions: 200 x 185 mm. 15 lines per page, in two columns, black ink; catchwords on each folio. Chinese paper. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from John Crawfurd, 1842
- Publications:
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Edwin Wieringa, ‘Syair berupa rintihan seorang penyalin tentang nasib malangnya: beberapa catatan mengenai BL Or. 6899 (Syair Makrifat dan Syair Dagang)’, Kearifan lokal yang terkandung dalam manuskrip lama, penyunting Ding Choo Ming, Henri Chambert-Loir, Titik Pudjiastuti (Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (ATMA), 2009), pp.15-30.
M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.109
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)