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photographic copies of a palmleaf man uscript with trans literation, in a cardboard cover Kotara Gama, Javanese lawbook, prose, beginning with the basmalah and an eulogy of king Surya Alam. The original text is a palmleaf manuscript of 80 leaves found by professor Koesnoe in Lombok, about 1970, and photographed. The L.U.B. possesses a microfilm, registered as A 132, which has been reproduced at approxi mately the same size as the original. Mr Soegiarto made a complete romanized transliteration of the reproduction (36 pp.) in 1973. Two copies of this transliteration and a short Dutch apergu of the contents of the text by Dr Pigeaud are added. The text contains some legal maxims or apophthegms, called saloka, which were in use as names, at the same time characteri zations, of cases of law, such as theft under various circumstances, etc. Some cases which are dealt with in the text are men tioned in notes written on the left margin of the palmleaves, which is exceptional. The idiom of this Kotara Gama codex is East Javanese (dépun- instead of dipun-). The title Kotara Gama appears only on the first page, before the basmalah. The Islamic versions of the Old Javanese lawbooks like Kutara Manawa were originally made in the era of the Pasisir culture, probably at the Court of the kings of Dëmak, in the 16th century. Islam was established in Lombok by Muslim traders sailing from East Javanese ports, probably Grësik, in the 17th century.