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Unlike Grësik, Cërbon never suffered severe hostile attacks, In the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries the Sultans managed to maintain passably good relations with their powerful neighbours, the Dutch East India Company in Batavia and the Central Java nese Kings. Economically the Cërbon Sulta nate was weak, however. There were in sufficient means to pay authors and scribes. As a rule Cërbon manuscripts are in a poor condition. Manuscripts containing relevant texts are registered in the General Index under the catchwords Cërbon and Gunwty Jati. 23.510 Cërbon mythical tale, Walaij Sujj- sar), Welarj Suqsai}: cod. 6557, 6707, 7376. 23.520 Cërbon history: cod. 6203a, no. 27 (KBG Brandes 75a), 6440 (KBG cod. 36), 6535 (KBG Bran des 69), 7383 (Sajarah Cërbon), 11.082, AdKIT 1023/2 (Malay paraphrase). 23.530 Cërbon, Bantën history by Abdul Kahar: cod. 7379, 7379a. 23.540 Cërbon history, mythic beginning, Pampu Awai}: cod. AdKIT 533/1, AdKIT 1023/1. 23.550 Genealogy and history of Cërbon- Gunui3 Jati: cod. 6491, 7509, 7549. 23.560 Babad Talaga, Maja Lëijka, Cër bon legendary history: cod. 5595 (Raden Paijlurah), CB 141. 23.570 Notes on West Javanese history: cod. 5631 A. 23.700 Local histories and gene- a logies of Sundanese districts. In consequence of the position of Cërbon as

the cultural centre of West Java, Cërbon Javanese was for a long time the idiom of literature in the Sundanese districts. Indi genous Sundanese mythic tales and gene alogies were linked up with Cërbon tales referring to the introduction of Islam by sunan Gunuij Jati. But then, Cërbon mythi cal and legendary history, registered under the preceding head, on its part contains some indigenous Sundanese elements. The intro duction of a Pajajaran prince as the founder of Majapahit into Central Javanese historical texts has been mentioned before (23.500). In Cërbon and the Sundanese districts the wayat} theatre and wayaij plays developed in the flourishing period of the Pasisir era, as they did in Central and East Java, but in the shapes of the puppets and especially in the names of heroes and heroines there were remarkable differences (see the present au thor’s “Javaanse Volksvertoningen”, index, sub voce Soenda). Manuscripts containing information on West Javanese wayaij my thology are rare. The Kanda codex of West Javanese origin, registered under 23.790, is a poor specimen of the genre of compendiums of epic tales, so well represented in the litera ture of Central Java. In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies in the Sundanese districts, in addition to Arabic script, West Javanese script was adapted to Sundanese phonetics. In West Javanese texts written by Sundanese authors the same particularities occur. The differ ences between d and d, t and t are some times disregarded. Under the present head manuscripts con taining West Javanese texts on Sundanese mythology and history, and on the genealogy of Sundanese noble families, are registered.