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Javanese idiom and script, written by several hands, some regular, some irregular. Origin unknown. RtMLV 23734 — B-30.385 — palmleaf [ms, damaged, incomplete, in disorder 40 x 3,5 cm 35 x 3 cm Balinese 4 lines Mantri Wëka, Javanese-Balinese Panji romance in tëijahan metre, mentioning a widyadari (celestial nymph), Tampak Li man and Rare A13011. Small, crabbed writing, probably written in Lombok. Originally coll. Schweys, 1916. RtMLV 24151 — B-30.521 — palmleaf 43 x 4 cm 104 leaves [ms 38 x 3 cm Javanese 4 lines Yusup romance in macapat verse, East Javanese-Madurese idiom, perpendicular Easit Javanese script. The boards are decorated with wood-carving representing a pair of dragons. RtMLV 25338 — B-30.859 — palmleaf 27.5 x 4 cm 82 leaves [ms, damaged 23 x 2,5 cm Javanese 4 lines Damar Wulan romance in macapat verse, clumsy rustic script, irregular writing, Central Javanese. Acquired by the Museum in 1921. RtMLV 25599 — B-30.525 — palmleaf [ms, damaged, incomplete 44.5 x 3,5 cm 68 leaves 37.5 x 2,5 cm Javanese 4 lines Yusup romance in macapat verse, East Javanese idiom, cursive script. Originally coll. Reynders, 1922.

RtMLV 25600 — B-30.525 — palmleaf [ms, damaged, in disorder 39,5 x 3,5 cm 134 leaves 33 x 2,5 cm Javanese 4 lines Yusup romance in macapat verse, East Javanese-Madurese idiom, sloping East Java nese script. Presented to the Rotterdam Museum in 1922 by Mr Reynders. RtMLV 26028 — B-30.176 — palmleaf [ms, without boards, incomplete 45 x 5 cm 20 and 20 double leaves 42 x 5 cm captions of illustrations Balinese Lyric erotic stanzas in Indian metres, Old Javanese poetical idiom, perhaps partly made in Bali, in the style of Nirartha’s lyrics, turning on sensual love and the description of nature. The stanzas are rather incoherent, there seems to' be little of a plot. The leaves are numbered 9-28 and 49-68. The conclu ding section, beginning on p. 64, contains an allusion to the reunion of the kingdoms of Jarpgala and Kadiri, an ancient motif in Old Javanese literature, found also in the Nagara Kërtagama. Neither the poet’s name nor his Royal patron’s name are mentioned explicitly in the leaves which are left. The colophon is missing. The manuscript is remarkable for the profusion of its illustrations. The poetical text was used by a Balinese artist to make more than 200 minature drawings of high artistic value in the well-known Balinese style (see 42.130). Passages, or even detached words of the text are written as captions under, above and between the figures of the drawings. The sequence of the words is made clear by means of lines of tiny dots which meander from one word to another all over