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political and social history of the Pasisir period will be discussed. 14.010 Notes on mysticism, 16th century, editions Gunning, Kraemer and Drewes: cod. 266. 14.020 Notes on theology and mysticism, editions of Schrieke and Drewes: cod. 1928. 14.030 Notes on theology and mysticism, and edifying tract, 16th century, Ferrara manuscript: cod. 10.811 (photostats and copies). 14.031 Catechism, theology and mysticism, folded treebark-books: cod. 8657-B (photostats), 11.092. 14.200 Old Islamic Texts in buda, gunurj scr i pt (group A, 14.000). In the nineteenth century the legalistic and orthodox current in Javanese Islam became strong. As far as possible Muslim divines destroyed reminiscences of the pre ceding periods. Social customs of pre-Islamic origin, and religious rites which were con sidered unorthodox, were either suppressed or remodelled and reinterpreted in concor dance with the tenets of Islam. Probably in the course of time many manuscripts con taining texts referring to unorthodox Islamic mysticism were either destroyed or cast into oblivion. Nevertheless in remote districts some manuscripts containing information on beliefs °f Muslim communities belonging to the first centuries of Javanese Islam are pre served. In some cases the script is of the bind called buda or gunuv,, a rustic script also found in some Javanese manuscripts with non-Islamic religious texts, registered under 10.800, and further in texts on magic

and divination registered under 40.260 and 41.960. Under the present head some manuscripts written in buda or gunuv, or rustic script, containing miscellaneous notes on Islamic theology, mysticism and incantations have been registered. 14.210 Notes on mysticism and incantations, mixed with pre-Islamic texts, partly written in buda or gunuv, script: cod. 2262, 5611. 14.220 Notes on mysticism, theology etc., antiquated idiom, Pasisir, written in clumsy quadratic script: cod. 5615, 5620. 14.230 Notes on mysticism, theology, divi nation etc., old (West) Javanese manuscripts originally written in antique Javanese script, modern Javanese copies: cod. 6548 a (one manuscript originally written on bamboo laths), 7480 (KBG no 17, kropak, Bënda mss), 8597 (KBG no 189, Bënda mss), 7517 (Siqèn Lor, Së- marai3, notes), 11.017 (KBG no 75, kro pak). 14.240 Notes on mysticism, theology, div ination etc., old Pasisir texts, rustic Javanese script: cod. 6620 (= 8312 g = BCB prtf 158), 6626 (= 8312 h = BCB prtf 158), 7465, 7556. 14.400 Arabic texts and Javan ese paraphrases (still group A, 14.000). It is beyond doubt that in the Is lamic period of Javanese cultural history literal translations of Arabic religious texts occupied an important place in literature. In this period Arabic took over the function which belonged to Sanskrit in the preceding