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Loose Acquisitions registered in 1971 and 1972

12.586 30.821 28 x 21 cm outside Javanese script 18,5 x 14 cm writ ing, damaged photographic copy, original: treebark paper, 34 leaves (original number ing: 33-68 pp.), 17 lines, no binding A: p. 1-4: scribbling and loose notes, mostly illegible. B: p. 5-9: didactic and moralistic poem in macapat metre, like \Vula13 Rèh, 3 cantos: metres dandaij gula, kinanti, gambuh; fragmentary. See “Literature of Java”, par. 17.600, vol. I, p. 107 ff. C: p. 10-68: a fragment of Jaya Lëq- kara Wularj,an East Javanese ro mance in verse, tale of a young prince and his companion wandering about and meeting many masters of religious and secular lore. See Vreede, Catalogus Jav. handschriften Leiden, 1892, p. 277. The fragment misses the introduction. It has 14 cantos, metres mëgatruh, dandaq gula, sinom, durma, wirarjroij, pa^kur, sinom, sumëkar, kinanti, gam buh, asmara dana, pucuij, mijil, kinanti. It ends abruptly. The cantos are num bered with Javanese numerals, which is exceptional. The text is not wholly conform the Jaya Lë(3kara Sunya Wibawa text described in Poerba- tjaraka’s “Indonesische Handschrif

ten”, K.B.G. 1950, p. 17 ff. The manuscript was written by various scribes. The writing of B is much better than that of C. The orthography of C is deficient. The script of A, B and C is cursive, it belongs to the North Coast re gion of Central Java. The leaves were probably written in the beginning of the 19th century. On the first page a paper label with a Malay legend in antiquated Dutch spelling is pasted: “Tjaritanja Jaija Langkara, dapat die Sellaronong”. It was probably written shortly after the finding of the manuscript. The identification might be the work of a Javanese translator serving on general de Kock’s staff. A Dutch note was added to the Malay legend of the label at the time of the enter ing of the collection de Kock in the State Archives, in 1905. Sellaronong is identified with Silarong, the name of a cave which parjgéran Dipa Nagara is said to have used as a hermitage for some time (see B.K.I., 2de volgreeks, III, p. 147). The manuscript, badly written and frag mentary, does not give the impression of having belonged to the paqgéran’s most cherished possessions. The original man uscript belongs to the Algemeen Rijksar chief (State Archives), The Hague, collec tion de Kock (a general in command of the Dutch forces fighting paqgéran Dipa Na gara in the Java War, 1825 - 1830), acquisi tion 1905, XLIV no 222. The photographic copy was made at the request of Mr P. B. R- Carey, of Oxford, in 1971, and presented by him to the library.