on p. 2 are notes on payment of the borrowing charge in 1858 and 1859; Banten Syaikh coll.; received from Snouck Hurgronje. Covering the war between the Pandawas and Kaurawas in which Bima and Arjuna take part; written in Batavia Malay with the use of gua and lu. Van Ronkel 1921, pp. 2-3, no. 6.

465. Cod.Or. 5640 65 ff.; thin wove paper; 19 x 15'/2 cm.; 17 lines per p.; neat writing; much damaged; Banten Syaikh coll.; received from Snouck Hurgronje. I ff. lr-5r: Biday at al-mubtadr bi-fadl Allah al-muhdf; II ff. 7r-17v: Acehnese; Beukeumeunan; III ff. 18r-24v: ‘Aqrdah; copied during the reign of Sultan Alaaddin Muhammad Syah of Aceh (1781-1795); IV ff. 25r-38v; Durrat al-fakirah (?); commentary on Umm al-barahïn translated into Malay; as copyist (of the original?) is mentioned Lebai Abdul-Karim and as owner Lebai Abdur-Rahim; V ff. 38v-57r: Durrat an-nazirah (tanbfhan li-’d-durrat al-fakirah); by Sirajuddin bin Jalaluddin; VI ff. 57r-65v: Questions by Syaikh Abdur-Rauf; seven Arabic questions posed by Syaikh Abdur-Rauf answered in Malay; the end is missing. Van Ronkel 1921, p. 113, no. 268.

466. Cod.Or. 5641 12 pp.; European laid paper (blue); wm. Horn with 1875\ 22 x 16Vi cm.; 16 lines per p.; neat writing; on the title page (f. lr) is the year 1296/1878-79; Banten Syaikh coll.; received from Snouck Hurgronje. I ff. 2v-llr: Syair Bunga Air Mawar; by Pangeran Panembahan Bupati of Palembang; according to this MS the writing was commenced on 14 Jumadil-awal 1255/26 July 1839; according to MS MI: 10 in Museum Nasional, Jakarta, on 14 Jumadil-awal 1275; cf. Van Ronkel 1909, p. 353 and Yumsari Yusuf in Archipel no. 11, 1976, p. 58., and her text publication (1978); the language is influenced by the Palembang dialect;