1792. KIT 639/1 Pun Matari Singa Jaya Himat Copper plate (red); 24 x h x IVi cm.; side A: 57 lines; side B: 56 lines; rencong script; South-Sumatran Malay with Old Javanese; the upper part of the copper plate has been broken, but the text at bottom is continued without interruption on side B; donated by G.G. Schrieke in 1930. The text contains the story of a wife of Ratu Matiyan Tadini of Palembang, who is seven months pregnant and whose fidelity is in doubt, has been expelled from the palace nad is seeking shelter; the ruler has made known that if the child proves to be his, it will bear the name fixed by him; it is born at the residence of Raja Salakay; when the ruler hears this from the itinerant merchants (sutan dagang), he summons Raja Salakay with the child; by the very appearence of the child he knows it is his, keeps it in his palace and gives no more audiences; Raja Salaky is grieved and goes, without bothering to take leave, back to the highlands; the ruler conveys his apologies, sends him gifts, then after making him drunk and having his hands tied with flowered silk (as token of respect), he has him returned to Palembang; the child is named Pun Matari Jaya Himat and is granted land to develop; there he came into contact with Batara Hutan and Batara Bukid Saguntang; the latter send him on a voyage; here the story ends abruptly; the text has been transliterated by D. van Hinloopen Labberton in Meededeling no. 4 van de Afdeeling Volkenkunde van het Koloniaal Instituut (1932), pp. 108-140; cf. Iskandar 1996, pp. 24-30; Voorhoeve Cod.Or. 8447 (91).

1793. KIT 674/50 Letter European laid paper; 34 x 22 cm.; from the sultan to Teuku Umar, dated 4 Safar 1308/19 September 1890; with seals of Sultan Muhammad Daud Syah; framed behind glass. Stammeshaus coll. Instructions from the sultan.

1794. KIT 674/491 Seals 1 f.; photograph; 8‘A x 5'A cm.; Stammeshaus coll. Faded photograph of the singular seal and the square private seal of Sultan Alaaddin Muhammad Daud Syah. Van Ronkel and Damsté 1935, p. 147.