'Book VI: Notes on matters connected with the Malay Peninsula' / by Dr Charles Otto Blagden

This material is held atSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London

Scope and Content

Among various items in English are found the following materials:

A: ff. 9r.-15r. Bĕsisi text on hunting the siamang (the long-armed black gibbon), with interlinear Malay translation. Romanized. Described as ‘Bĕsisi notes of W.W. Skeat’.

B: ff. 16r.-20r. Adat undang-undang Minangkabau, ‘from a copy in the possession of R. N. Bland S.S.C.S. made by Muhammad Hussein and Laksamana Mamat (11.1.87), the original being in the Nĕgri Sĕmbilan’. Romanized Malay.

C: ff. 59v.-69v. ‘Extract from a MS containing a hikayat followed by the following account of Malay ranks and titles’. A footnote is added to ‘hikayat’ :’Adat Raja-raja bĕrputĕra, etc., written for de Bruijn, Governor of Malacca in 17 …[sic]’. Arabic script, copied from an original MS paginated 1-20. With romanization of the first lines.

D: ff. 71v.-103v. Salasilah Yang Dipĕrtuan mangkat di Tĕlok Kĕtapang Malaka. ‘Copied from a MS in the library of the Straits [Branch of the Royal] Asiatic Society.’ Beginning with the Jambi war of A.H. 1083 [A.D. 1672] (the MS mistakenly has ‘1803’). Dated at the end A.H. 1242 [A.D. 1826]. Arabic script, with partial romanization. From an original MS paginated 1-64. Cf. MS 40507.

E: ff. 104v.130v. Bintang duabĕlas, on the zodiac. ‘Copied from a MS in the possession of Sheikh Abdulrahman, Malay writer. D. O. Alor Gajah.’ Arabic script, with partial romanization.

F: f. 131v. Mystical value of characters of the Arabic script, ‘on the fly-leaf of the MS which follows’ (i.e. of the MS copied in E above).

Access Information

Open

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the South East Asian Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, 14 November 1973

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Lined European paper, 31.5 x 20 cm.

Archivist's Note

Description based on an entry from 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain: A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British Public Collections' by M.C. Ricklefs, P. Voorhoeve and Annabel Teh Gallop Jakarta Ecole francaise d'Extreeme-Orient, 2014. Reproduced with permission.

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