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COLLECTION HOOYK A AS-K ÉTUT S AbJK A

Bali Project, First Part, registered between 1972 and 1976

Considerable collections of romanized copies of Javano-Balinese manuscripts com piled by Dr Hooykaas are already registered in Volume III, Addenda, p. 107-138, as LOr 11.104-11.530 and LOr 11.808-11.960. Continuing his efforts to make the Leiden collection of Javano-Balinese literature as complete as possible, Dr Hooykaas has, from 1972, made available for the Library a great number of romanized copies of the same kind. They form a welcome supplement to the collection of copies of Javano-Balinese manu scripts belonging to the Yayasan Kirtya of Sir?araja, which was registered in 1961 in Volume II, P- 521-631, LOr 9075-10.391. The original Kirtya registration numbers of those Siqaraja manuscripts which are represented by romanized copies in the present supplementary collection Hooykaas are always mentioned in the descriptions in the following list. Moreover a Reference List of Kirtya registration numbers (Krt) and Leiden codex numbers (LOr) is appended to this volume. The copies consist of romanized type-written leaves of thin paper of approximately the same size (34 X 21 cm outside, 31 x 19 writing), containing as a rule from 45 to 50 lines type-script on one side of the leaf. A relatively small number of the copies is sew'ed and provided with paper covers. The leaves of thin paper are mostly held together only by paper-clips, and in the Leiden University Library preserved in loose paper covers, afterwards collected in voluminous portfolios. It seemed superfluous to mention the particulars about the size of the paper leaves and the number of the lines on each leaf in the descriptions of the copies. As a rule only the number of written pages is recorded. The copies contains indications of the number of palmleaves of the original palmleaf manu scripts, and the number of lines on the two sides of the palmleaves. Seeing that the knowledge of Old Javanese and Javano-Balinese literature, formerly cultivated in the circles of Balinese priests and gentlemen, is declining, partly in consequence of the fact that in the schools and in every-day life the Javano-Balinese script is replaced by Latin script, Dr Hooykaas devised a project to have copies made of all palmleaf manuscripts still available in Bali. There are several copies made of each