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in America also own collections of Javanese manuscripts. They are of less impor tance than those in The Netherlands and in Java and Bali. No attempts have been made to make new descriptions of the foreign collections nor are existing descrip tions incorporated in the present book, because evidently the trouble involved in collecting information would have been incongruous with the result. It is hoped that the present book will be a useful guide for scholars desirous to make descrip tions of Javanese manuscripts found in foreign collections. In Uhlenbeck’s “The Languages of Java and Madura” (1964, p. 116) collections of Javanese manuscripts in Great Britain, on the continent of Europe outside The Netherlands, in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark and in America are mentioned. Libraries in other European countries (Cecho-Slovakia, e.g.) also contain some Javanese codexes. The collections in England have been registered in J. D. Pearson’s “Oriental Manuscript Collections in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland” (1954, p. 77-81). A preliminary Dutch description was made by S. Keyzer: “De Javaanse Hand schriften (in het Britsch Museum, het East India House en de Royal Asiatic Society) te Londen” (BKI vol. 2, 1854). The French collection, in Paris, was catalogued by A. Cabaton: “Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits indiens Indo-Chinois et Malayo-Polynésiens” (1912). A German collection called Bibliothek Schoemann, made before 1879, was formerly housed in Berlin; now most of it seems to be in Marburg and Tübingen. No printed catalogue is available. A description of Javanese manuscripts in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, Denmark, made by the present author, will be published before long. Archiv Onentalni, vol. 17, 1959, contains an article by Lokesh Chandra on a Javanese-Balinese palmleaf manuscript in the Oriental Institute, Prague. The other collections, often single manuscripts, in Europe and America are not yet catalogued, to the present author’s knowledge. The Leiden University Library possesses microfilm copies of several interesting manuscripts belonging to other libraries (see 50.005-IX and 50.029). CATALOGUES OF JAVANESE MANUSCRIPTS (50.008) The catalogues of the collections in Java and Bali have been mentioned before (50.002 and 50.003). The collections in The Netherlands were catalogued more extensively and more scholarly. For a long time the latter catalogues, in Dutch, were the principal source of information on Javanese literature available to scholars. Uhlenbeck’s “Survey of Studies on the languages of Java and Madura” (1964) contains an interesting chapter on collections of manuscripts and catalogues (p. 114-117).