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GENERAL INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS

70.000 Introductory Remarks. Many Javanese codexes in the collections which have been catalogued in the second volume of the present book are nameless or compilations of notes and treatises on various subjects. Further, several texts are known under more than one name. Neither the alphabetical indexes of names of texts appended to Vreede’s and Juynboll’s catalogues, nor the alphabetical order of manuscripts in Brandes’ Beschrijving and Voorhoeve’s Handlist have proved satisfactory in finding codexes containing wanted information on subjects of interest to students of Javanese culture. Therefore in the present volume a detailed General Index of Names and Subjects is presented. In this Index have been entered not only names of texts and authors, but also names of personages, heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses, who figure in the texts; geographical names, countries., mountains, and rivers, districts and towns which in some respect are of importance in Javanese literature. Moreover, it seemed useful and feasible to include a great variety of subjects belonging to the provinces of religion and ethics, belles-lettres, magic, the human ities, law and folklore, in order to enable students to find codexes containing information they may need. The range of the catchwords is rather wide, including i-a. women and children, various animals, fishes and birds included, plants, rice etc., water and fire etc. In short, all catchwords which seemed useful for research in some respect have been entered. Entries of the General Index refer in the first place to codexes registered in the second volume of the present book and the Addenda. The Index is confined to the public collections in The Netherlands (see §§ 50.004-50.006). The great collections in Java and Bali, and the minor collections in Europe outside The Netherlands, and in America (§ 50.002 and ’3, § 50.007) are beyond its scope. Under a paragraph on a given text in the Synopsis, only codexes containing that text as first item are mentioned. Consequently the number of copies of a text found in the Library is in several cases greater than would appear from the Paragraphs of the Synopsis, because codexes containing such a text as second or third item are not mentioned under the paragraph of that text (but under the paragraphs of their initial texts). This. has. been done in order to ! avoid an excess °f cross-references. However, all codexes containing more than one text, and