A Yellow silk envelopes: I addressed to P.L. de Lannooy, Resident of Riau, with the seal of the sultan of Lingga and the date 1264 (?)/1847-48; II the same as above; III the same as above but without seal; IV addressed to W.S. Hoogmaker, Resident of Riau, with the seal of the viceroy of Riau. B Greeting cards Three photostats of greeting cards with calligraphy; I 1 f.; I6V2 x 1014 cm.; in the shape of a cockroach and with the words Hormat tahun baru, umur panjang, rezeki murah; II 1 f.; 13‘/2 x 9'A cm.; in the shape of a cockroach and with the same words; III 1 f.; 16 x IIV2 cm.; in the shape of a parrot and with the words Tabik tuan yang terhormat memégang pekerjaan aspirant controleur bertakhta di dalam negeri Palembang.

1136. Cod.Or. 8447 A collection of transliterations of texts in South Sumatran scripts. Description made by P. Voorhoeve. It consists of 173 sheaves of paper numbered Or. 8447 (1)- (173) and contains: 1. some photocopies of texts; 2. copies of texts by Jaspan and Jumsari Jusuf; 3. preliminary transliterations in ink or pencil by Jaspan, P. Voorhoeve, Mrs. Voorhoeve and their children; 4. typed transliterations by P. Voorhoeve. Duplicates of these are in the Brynmor Jones University, Hull, DJA, unclassified (4). Cf. BSOAS 45, 310. 5. occasionally: introductions and notes by Voorhoeve, some in Dutch, some in English. In 1964 M.A. Jaspan edited 8 Malay texts in rencong script which he had collected during anthropological fieldwork in 1961-1963 among the Rejang of South Sumatra. He gave them the title Redjang Ka-Ga-Nga Texts. On the back cover a further fascicle of Ka-Ga-Nga Texts was announced as being in preparation. This should also contain texts from Pasemah, Serawai and cognate Middle Malay peoples (P- 6). For this fascicle Jaspan had made copies and tentative transliterations of rencong texts in museums in Berlin, Leiden, and London. He then found that the number of these texts in museums and library collections was much greater than he had supposed and their interpretation was far from easy. Therefore he asked P. Voorhoeve to co-operate on the South Sumatran Literature Project, for which he had