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mat)luit) nalor hit)kat) sawiji, jaijkep kawan prakara Translation, with emendations: (p. 1 a, line 1) In the Name of God the Merciful the Compassionate. I begin the tale of the Prophet, God’s blessing and benedic tion be upon him. May the owner and the scribe be given intercession (safa c a) with the Lord and the noble (line 2) Prophet. May they be free from temptation, curses and maledictions (read tulah sarik instead of tula sërik). May I be far removed from all assaults and tempta tions, in future, at the End. //x// It is told that c Abdullah was the son (p. 1 b, line 3) of c Abdul Muttalib who took for wife the noble Fatima by name, a daughter of one c Abdullah was she. The former c Abdullah was married to the noble Amina, she was a daughter of ( c Abdul) Wahhab. Her mother was called (line 4) the noble Safüwa, mother of Aminah //x// Hasim had a son called c Abdul Manaf, c Abdul Manaf had a son called c Abdul Muttalib. This c Abdul Muttalib (line 5) was given a blessing by God, he was a ruler of Mecca. It is told that once upon a night, the noble lord, sleeping, had a dream. He saw areca-nuts, palms, on his own royal back. (line 6) //x// These palms were very big. There were four of them:. One stretched its branches to the west, one went in a southerly direction, another stretched to the east, the last one stretched to the north: complete four items. 60.113, Plate no 31, Ménak Amir Hamza, Umar Maya and the stolen horse, LOr 4869, manuscript written on treebark-paper, Ménak

Amir Hamza romance in macapat verse, Javanese-Madurese idiom and script, cursive. The triangle of dots put above some aksaras is an indication of a non-Javanese, in this case Arabic phoneme (cf. § 60.112). These marked aksaras are transliterated by italics. The original leaves are 28,5 x 19 cm. Col lection Kiliaan, 1897. See Synopsis 30.461. Text: (p. 33 b, line 1; the metre is dandat) gula) [babaktajnni tinnélar, jarannéra dèn thut wuri, ndan sira marmmaya wus (line 2) prapta hit) mka //o// kapangih rahadyan nam/a, hit) pingir pasar tumu (line 3) li, hanadëk kanon wot) kata ndan siromarmmaya prapti, ha (line 4) nunitun jarannèki, cinahossakën sirèku marit) bagi (line 5) nda ham/a, pira si rganirèki, hu- marmmaya gumoyu sar (line 6) yya hanucap //o// jaran punika rahadyan / hantuk mani (line 7) ra njarahi, drbinnéra worj na- dagat), sun palayokë (line 8) nnèi) hum, mankyandika titihi, ndan sira harn/'a hamuwus / (line 9) hiya sun thunganana, sira timba- hana haglis / tannadanu bagi (line 10) nda ham/a hanongat) //o// linampahakën karj kuda, haywata (line 11) rah tëbbih niki, hanëngih sanai) pambalat), nolya hatiga (line 12) s gigiri, jarannéra wus mati* siram/ah it) tyas gagëtun / ha (line 13) sruh panimannéra, hit) jarannira kat) mati* pirat) dina rawuh kat). (line 14) nadarbi kuda //o// kapangih lan baginda m/a / mwat) numarmmaya (line 15) sumandit),, hit), wankini jarannika, samya nadëpakën wafiki, ndan kat)