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Resident’s men and the peace was not disturbed. 27.810 History of Suryètjalaga, Yogya- karta. cod. 6756. 28.000 Pakualaman Histories, Surya Nagara, Y ogyakarta. About the middle of the nineteenth century, literature found a patron in Yogyakarta in the person of Surya Nagara, related to the Pakualaman House. The Yogyakarta style of the period was flowery, using a literary idiom containing kawi words which in Sura karta were unknown. Yogyakarta script also was different, using some characters which in Surakarta were obsolete. Yogyakarta, especially Pakualaman, manuscripts often were illuminated. Surakarta manuscripts containing coloured decorations are scarce. Surya Nagara was interested in history. Some historical texts were written in his time, either by himself or by authors who were stimulated by him. He has a remark able list of years of memorable events, Sarjkala nil} Momana (see 25.440) to his name. Since the first decades of the nineteenth century Surakarta literature (Yasadipura) was dominant in the field of Javanese letters. Works of Yogyakarta authors were seldom read outside the circle of the Sultan’s and the Paku Alam’s Courts. As a consequence in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries typical Yogyakarta literature has rarely been published and printed. The Javanese reading public outside Yogyakarta preferred litera ture in the Surakarta style and idiom. Nevertheless at the Yogyakarta Sultan’s Court, especially in epic history and wayai}

literature, a peculiar tradition was preserved, different from the dominant Surakarta style. In Yogyakarta several epic heroes had names which were unusual outside the Sulta nate. The divergence was intentional, it was a consequence of the political separation en forced by the treaty of 1755. In some re spects Yogyakarta literary style remained rather old-fashioned. The Surakarta literary renaissance of the nineteenth century did not impress Yogyakarta authors as an important improvement on the Mataram traditions of which they considered themselves the guard ians. Manuscripts containing relevant texts are registered in the General Index under the catchwords Yogyakarta, Paku Alain and Surya Nagara. 28.010 History of Javanese kingdoms, Su rya Nagara, Yogyakarta: cod. 2251, 2252, KITLV Or 15, KITLV Or 188. 28.020 History of Yogyakarta, Dipa Nagara troubles, Surya Nagara and grand-vizir Danu Rëja V: cod. 8552 a, b, c. 28.030 Babad Tanah Jawi, Yogyakarta, Pakualaman, in prose: cod. NBS 216 (= 10.726 A, B). 28.200 Maqkunagaran Histories, Surakarta. In Surakarta, in the middle of the nineteenth century, Prince Maqku Nagara IV was a patron of literature. He was a contemporary of Ratjga Warsita, the well-known author, the last of the great men of the Surakarta classical renaissance. Polit ical history was not the principal interest of later Surakarta authors: their works