1255. Cod.Or. 12.145 Mengambil emas dari dalam tambang Two MSS bound in one; Van Ophuysen coll. (23). I 12 ff.; Dutch laid paper; wm. Concordia with T S & Z; 20 x I6V2 cm.; 13 lines per p.; legible writing; written down by a teacher at the behest of the assistant-resident of Kubung Tigabelas (Solok) in 1855; a treatise on gold mining (ff. 2r-llr), the tools used and the customary superstitious practices involved; II 30 ff.; Dutch; Dutch laid paper; wm. Pro Patria\ 21 x 11V2 cm.; 17-20 lines per p.; contains two translations (ff. 2v-15v and 17v-28r) of I. Van Ronkel 1921, p. 169, no. 402.

1256. Cod.Or. 12.146 Itungan gedang 120 pp.; Dutch laid paper; wm. Concordia with T S & Z; 21 x 17 cm.; ca. 13 lines per p.; legible writing; Malay showing Minangkabau influence; dated Solok 2 May 1855; by Indo Mangkuto, the author of Cod.Or. 12.152 ?; Van Ronkel mentions Van Ophuysen as the author of both MSS; Van Ophuysen coll. (24). Arithmetic book. Van Ronkel 1921, p. 176, no. 428.

1257. Cod.Or. 12.147 Syair Abdul-Kadir i (+) 9 ff.; wove paper; 22Vi x 14‘A cm.; 4 lines per p.; almost illegible writing; showing Minangkabau influence; the copying by Siragan was finished on 21 May 1855; Van Ophuysen coll. (25). A few episodes from the story of the great mystic ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Gïlanï, for the greater part in rhyme; how he arrives at a school and being poor is jokingly taught by the teacher that whereever there is water there are fish; a ruler wants to put Abdul- Kadir’s faith in this teaching to the test; he has a coconut split and out comes a fish; the ruler becomes Muslim and Abdul-Kadir receives gold and clothes; the said teacher is punished and, despite his youth, Abdul-Kadir becomes a khalifah; cf. Drewes and Poerbatjaraka 1938. Van Ronkel 1921, pp. 219-20, no. 538.