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LOr 2263

VII. COLL. “RIJKSINSTELLING”, LEIDEN

16,5x22x 53 cm Javanese 6 palmleaf mss, 1 portfolio with 6 sheaves of paper Miscellaneous Notes: r • palmleaf ms 24,5 x 3 cm, partly 3, partly 2 lines, 55 leaves without numbers, slov enly boorish script and idiom, Central Java: notes on Muslim theology and mysticism. A tentative copy in regular Javanese script is in the portfolio; G. palmleaf ms, 38 x 3,5 cm, severely dam aged and incomplete, 4 lines, 17 whole leaves and some broken ones, fairly well written in so-called buda script: incanta tions, partly Sanskrit slokas with Old Javanese explanations, Shiwaitic, 10.800. A pencil copy in buda script and a ten tative copy in regular Javanese script are in the portfolio 1 ; palmleaf ms, 43 x 3 cm, 11 leaves with 4, partly 3 lines of 34 cm and 8 leaves with 4 lines of 39,5 cm, written in so- called buda script: incantations, partly non-Islamic, beginning with awighnam nstu namas siddim, partly Muslim, be ginning with the basmallah. The kidut} rtuneksa irj wei}i is mentioned in a line j Written in regular Javanese script ; Palmleaf ms, 48 x 3,5 cm, 3 leaves with 4 lines of 42,5 cm and 2 leaves with 4 lines of 32 cm, written in so-called buda Scr >pt: incantations, non-Islamic, men tioning names of spirits etc. A pencil copy i’t buda script and a tentative copy in re gular Javanese script are in the port folio ; ^ Palmleaf ms, 42,5 x 3 cm, damaged and '"complete, 29 leaves with 4 lines written *n so-called buda script: pawukon divina

tion, mentioning names of spirits etc. A tentative copy in regular Javanese script is in the portfolio; K. palmleaf ms, 23 x 3 cm, 7 leaves with 4 lines so-called buda script: pawukon divination. A tentative copy in regular Javanese script in the portfolio. The buda script used in these mss resem bles the script registered in Holle’s “Tabel van Oud- en Nieuw Indische Alphabetten”, KBG 1877, no- 71. The origin of the mss is unknown, perhaps some remote district of Central or East Java. They seem to have belonged -to van der Vlis, See facs. 60.075. The portfolio contains moreover a copy of a didactic and moralistic treatise on the Pandawas in prose in regular cursive Java nese script (6 p.). Vide cat. Vreede p. 400. Coll. “Rijks- instelling”, 1878. LOr 2263 — S-41.940 cylindrical card-board box, 6 x 42 cm 2 paper scrolls: 4,40 m and 2,— m long, 40 cm broad lines in the breadth of the scrolls Javanese, Arabic Divination texts, pawukon, copied on paper in the original script, in bold semi cursive letters, with many rubrics. The script is ancient West Javanese. Cat. Vreede p. 383 has references to literature, i.a. to Raffles’s “History of Java”, where a Cërbon ms probably related to cod. 2263 is men tioned. On part of the reverse side of both scrolls Malay notes on divination, in Arabic script, are written. The first part of the longer scroll has coloured figures of the zodiac signs at one side. Perhaps the origi-