The author feels particularly grateful to the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.) for providing funds for the publication with such liberality that it has been possible to reproduce several facsimiles of manuscripts and illustrations, some of them in colours. In this way readers may become acquainted with some aspects of Javanese culture which have been given little attention so 1 far. Dr A. Teeuw, Professor of Malay in the University of Leiden, and at present President of the Board of Directors of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, has promoted the publication of “Literature of Java” in many ways. The author feels deeply indebted to him for his assistance in bringing out the book. The Addenda which are registered in the present volume III are mostly copies of Javanese-Balinese manuscripts collected by Dr C. Hooykaas, of the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Dr Hooykaas has deserved well of all students of Javanese-Balinese literature and culture by his unceasing activity in collecting manuscripts and preserving the Kirtya collection of Singaradja, Bali. The author expresses his admiration and gratefulness for Dr Hooykaas’s dis interested aid in completing the collection of Javanese-Balinese manuscripts of the Leiden University Library. Mrs Astuti Hendrato Sarnoe, of the University of Indonesia, has recently made available a list of the manuscripts and notes which were collected by the present author in Surakarta and Yogyakarta in the pre-war period; they are now in the keeping of the Faculty of Arts (Fakultas Sastra) in Djakarta. This collection is comparable with the Cohen Stuart, Brandes, Engelenberg and Moens collections in the Museum Pusat in Djakarta which are registered in volume II of the present book. Therefore it seems suitable to incorporate a concise catalogue of the Fakultas Sastra collection, based on Mrs Hendrato’s inventory, in the Addenda in the present volume. The author expresses his gratefulness for the preservation of the collection in Djakarta during several turbulent decades, and his appreciation for Mrs Hendrato’s diligence in compiling the inventory, and her kindness in presenting a copy to the Library. The cooperation with Mr J. Soegiarto and Mrs E. Andriessen-Lück has been as agreeable and fruitful in compiling the materials for the third volume of “Literature of Java” as it was during the writing of the preceding volumes. Their faithful fulfilment of the tasks entrusted to them has been exemplary. The author thanks them both most heartily.