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PREFACE

After the publication of Volume III of «Literature of Java» in 1970 the number of Javanese manuscripts in the Leiden University Library was greatly increased by new acquisitions. Most important are the second collection Moens (71 illustrated folio volumes containing much new information on folklore of Central Java) and the numerous copies of Javano-Balinese palmleaf manuscripts which were made in Bali according to a project devised by professor Hooykaas. The smaller collections of Javanese manuscripts existing in The Netherlands acquired also some additions. An important acquisition of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden was the collection Korn, which includes a number of interesting Javano- Balinese and Balinese palmleaf manuscripts. For this reason it was decided to add a fourth, supplementary volume to the three volumes of 'Literature of Java» which were published in 1967, 1968 and 1970. The arrangement of the present supplementary volume is in all respects exactly the same as in the three preceding volumes. This is in all respects exactly the same as in the three preceding volumes. This will be clear after perusal of the Table of Contents. Therefore it is superfluous to repeat the preliminary Historical Remarks on the Literature of Java which were included in Volume I (Synopsis). The present Supplement to the Systematic Survey of Javanese Literature and the supplementary General Index of Names and Subjects should both be consulted in combination with the major survey in Volume I and the major index in Volume III. A considerable number of identical lemmata appears in the three books. The List of Books on Javanese Literature has been supplemented by adding the titles °f some important new publications. This list should not be regarded as a complete bibliography. The author repeats his grateful acknowledgment of the facilities put at his disposal by the Council of the University of Leiden, the Librarian and staff of the University Library, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Z.W.O.) in The Hague and the oyal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en 0 kenkunde) of Leiden. He wishes to thank the librarians of collections outside Leiden 01 their willingness to furnish the information needed for this supplementary catalogue. especially professor Ensink for his assistance in describing some manuscripts in the ntuseum Gerardus van der Leeuw in Groningen.