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Names and Subjects, in order to distinguish them, as Javanese texts, from the Javano- Balinese copies which outnumber them by far in this book. In the whole of this volume the distinctive mark LOr before numbers of oriental codices of the Leiden University Library has for brevity’s sake been suppressed. So all codex numbers without distinctive mark are to be understood as belonging to the Leiden University Library. The numbers of codices belonging to other libraries in The Nether lands or abroad which are described or mentioned in this supplementary catalogue have been given distinctive marks in the form of abbreviations of the libraries’ names. For explanations of the abbreviations the reader is referred to the Table of Contents and the List of Abbreviations, a supplement to the similar list in “Literature of Java”, vol. Ill, 1970, p. XV-XVII. The present supplementary Systematic Survey and the General Index contain references to two foreign catalogues, namely the Catalogue of Javanese and Balinese Manuscripts in German libraries (abbreviated JBMG) and the Catalogue of Javanese Charters and Manuscripts in Danish collections (abbreviated COMDC 4-2), which were published by the author in 1975 and 1977. (See the Supplement to the List of Books under van Naerssen and Pigeaud). These references are useful because the Javanese manuscript collections in Germany (mostly in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) and Denmark (in the Royal Library, the National Archives and the National Museum, Copenhagen) are in many respects comparable with the Leiden collection. The manuscripts were apparently in most cases collected by Dutch, German or Danish residents of long standing in Java. Collation of manuscripts from Berlin and Copenhagen with Leiden manuscripts may be fruitful. It is a matter of regret to the author that for various reasons he could not include references to the Javanese manuscripts in public collections in Great Britain which were for the first time altogether registered in the comprehensive Catalogue of Indonesian Manuscripts by Ricklefs and Voorhoeve (1977, see the Supplement to the List of Books under Ricklefs). This valuable new catalogue should henceforth consulted by students of things Javanese side by side with the elder Dutch and English ones. The paragraph numbers (10.010-49.981) of this Systematic Survey of Javanese Literature have been printed in italics in order to distinguish them clearly from the codex numbers, which are in roman type. The system of paragraph numbers has been extended by intercalating additional numbers for the numerous texts which were not yet registered in the major Catalogue. The additional numbers refer either to recently discovered texts (under their proper names) or to newly formed groups of codices with similar contents (mostly texts without clearly marked proper names). Besides these manuscripts bearing recently intercalated paragraph numbers many new copies and variations of well-known texts have been registered in this supplementary volume under the old paragraph numbers of the Synopsis in volume One of Literature of Java”.