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side gunny script, 49 34 X 3 cm writing leaves, original numbering illegible 4 lines, photocopy of a palmleaf man uscript, severely damaged Old Javanese tutur, book of notes on religious subjects, popular Siwaitic Javanese speculations on the structure of microcosmos and macrocosmos, locations of numerous gods and spirits (bhütas) in limbs and organs of the humen body. Be sides the great gods Siwa, Brahma, Wisnu etc. epical heroes such as Aggada, Sugriwa and Anuman, the panca rësi Kusika, Garga, Métri, Kurusya and Pratanjala, and also specific Javanese divine beings such as Tutur Mègët (see Lit. of Java, III, Index, p. 418) are occasionally mentioned. The lists of spirits etc. located in limbs of the human body are in some cases couched in incantations. It seems probable that those incantations or invocations were used in magic rites practised to avert evil influ ences or to cure illness. A rule of Old Javanese law referring to forbidden sexual intercourse is incidentally mentioned, probably because of its supposed evil influ ence on the general state of the country. The idiom of the text is Old Javanese. The orthography is scholarly. Most Sanskrit words and names are correctly spelled. The buda script is of a curly variety which is particularly difficult to decipher. The writing is carefully done. Two inserted leaves (ns 15 and 16) have

writing in a sloping Javanese script of a later age, may be the 18th century. It is not very carefully written, and shows re semblance with the script found in numer ous East Javanese palmleaf manuscripts of the Islamic Yusup romance. The popular Yusup poem (Life of Joseph son of Jacob) may date from the 17th century or even earlier (see Lit. of Java, vol. I. p. 217 f)- The text of the inserted leaves is of the same kind as the main text in buda script, incantations of butas, addressed with the pronoun kita, but orthography and phraseology are of a later age. There is no reason to suppose that the inserted leaves originally belonged to another manuscript. They may be inserted by a later owner of the buda manuscript in order to fill a hiatus. The original manuscript was once ex posed to smoke, perhaps at the time that it was suspended from the rafters inside a Javanese house, as a means to keep it safe from moisture and insects. Smoke and ac cumulated dirt on the outside of the palmleaf manuscript had the effect that the top and bottom lines, which were exposed, were darkened so as to become practically illegible. The two lines in the middle of the leaves remained fairly clear. Moreover the leaves seem to be warped. Yet, in spite of the care of the original owner, the manus cript was ultimately attacked by insects and lost many leaves. The present description is based upon photocopies which were made with the utmost care at the India Office Library, London, in 1975. The illegibility of the top and bottom lines made it impossible to ascertain the correct sequence of the palmleaves. The remnants of the original