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12.587 26.600 32 x 21 cm out- Javanese script side, 25 x 17 cm writing, two initial pp. have 23 x 11,5 cm writ ing. 1] lines, within a diamond shaped drawn decoration with dragons (nagas) at the cor ners photographic copy, original: thick im port paper, 6 leaves (= 11 pp.), 21 lines, no binding, sewed History of the Chinese troubles in Kartasura in the middle of the 18th cen tury, in verse (only one canto, metre as- m ara dana), beginning without an introduc tion and ending abruptly. The fragment contains descriptions of negotiations be tween Javanese, Chinese and Dutch ^■O.C. officials. The cover has a Malay inscription writ- ten in antiquated Dutch spelling: “Tjarita koetika Perang Tjiena”, with a Dutch note added afterwards: “verhaal van den Chineeschen oorlog, onvolledig”. The script is of the quadratic Yogyakarta type, written stiffly. The orthography is deficient, and the versification shows many mistakes. The last page contains some personal uotes written in a cursive script referring to s ome gentlemen with the rank of mantri, belonging to the distinguished Këparak

Të^ën (i.e. right wing Këparak) division of Royal servants (abdi Dalëm) of the Yogyakarta Court. It is evident that the manuscript originally belonged to this Këparak family. It was probably written in the beginning of the 19th century. Thestory of the Chinese troubles might be a tradition of the family. The Javanese text does not give the impression of being written by a good scholar. The original manuscript belongs to the Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, col lection de Kock, acquisition 1905, XLIV no 223. The copy was made at the request of Mr P. B.R. Carey, of Oxford, and pre sented by him to the library. See also LOr 14.539. 12.588 15.820 24 x 38,5 cm out- Arabic script side, 2 times 16 x 10 cm writing, side by side photographic copy, two times 336 pp., 14-11 lines, side by side, recently bound in brown li nen Book of notes on Islamic theology and mysticism, partly (p. 5-125) Arabic treatises provided with Javanese interlinear glosses, for the rest (p. 126-336) Javanese notes and treatises, mostly based on glos ses of Arabic texts which are not repro duced. The original manuscript, preserved in the library of the India Office in London (cod. no 2446, Arabic, Loth 1047), seems to