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pages: 13,5 x 9,5 cm writing, 9 lines; space left open for ornamental frames, which were not executed. 21 lines, import paper, Javanese leather binding, worked Babad Kartasura, dynastic history of the first half of the 18th century, in macapat verse, ending abruptly in the episode of the Maqku Nagara troubles in Surakarta. Extensive redaction of Yogyakarta origin. The script and the spelling are Yogyanese. The writing is not very good but sufficiently clear. The text contains numerous graphic descriptions of interesting scenes and very few chrono grams, if any. It was meant to be interesting reading-matter for lovers of Javanese dynastic history. The manuscript is dated A.J. 1844, i.e.A.D. 1914. It was acquired by purchase from Mr J. de Koning of Leiden in 1970. See LOr 12.332 (Kraemer). 12.329 30.521, palmleaf 39 x 3,5 cm out- ms, 110 single side leaves (European 31 x 2,5 cm writing figures), Javanese script 4 lines, half-round profiled wooden boards

Yusup romance in macapat verse. East Javanese script and idiom. The ms is dated, at the end, 1890, in European figures. The writing is sufficiently clear but not beauti ful. Presented to the library by Mrs Labordus in 1970. 12.332 34 x 21 cm outside 29 x 17 cm writing, frames of black lines on all pages, a great number of polychrome illust rations in wayarj style, dirty and damaged, after wards repaired. 15-18 lines, greyish import paper, new black linen binding Pawukon, the 30 wukus with their at tributes, illustrated (p. 1-57), and many notes on related subjects, Javanese di- vinatory systems and tables (p. 58-82). The manuscript contains also a long list (52 items) of mëmulé dishes to be offered to the Prophet and Siti Përtimah, sèh hjabdul Kadir Jaélani and the prophets of old, the Javanese Walis, and the Javanese Kings and Queens, beginning with the Sultan of Dëmak down to sunan Paku Buwana V and Ratu Këncana V, and many other per sonalities (p. 83-91). Further some treatises in macapat verse on auspicious and inaus picious days. The kidug Rumëksa iij Wëqi (p. 135), kiduq Artati (p. 139), kiduo

41.950 192 pp. (no orginal numbering), Javanese script