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Mursada, romance in macapat verse, dated 1770 A.J., i.e. 1842 A.D., relating Mursada’s quest for a medicine to cure the illness of his step-mother the Queen ci Rum, who was a Princess of Malaka. As a child Mursada was (together with his mother) repudiated by his father the King of Rum. He was taken in by poor people, ki and ni Nambi, caught a magic fish with golden scales which became his protector, and had many adventures with beautiful prin cesses, both spirits and humans, in the course of his quest. The tale ends abruptly. Leather bound volume in quadratic kraton script, written in Surakarta, originally be longing to the Delft collection. Cat. Vreede p 194-196 has a Dutch epitome and re ferences to literature. Cod. or. 4881 is a Madurese version, called Morsada, of the same tale (with some differences in the names), continuing it to the end (v. cat. Juynboll I, p. 36/37). Cod. 10.618 is Soegi- arto’s copy of cod. 1816, also in BCB portf. no 71. LOr 1820 — R-17.310 21 x 33 cm 17 p. 13.5 x 25 cm Javanese 17 lines Yuda Nagara passage (p. 23-43 of cod. 1817) in verse, didactic on good behavi our in wordly matters. No date. Leather bound volume in quadratic kraton script, originally belonging to the Delft collections. Vide cat. Vreede p. 293. LOr 1821 — R-16.510 21 x 33 cm 643 p. 13.5 x 25 cm Javanese 17 lines Taju Salatin by Imam Bukari, didactic moralistic poem in macapat verse,

in 25 chapters (according to the introduc tion), examples taken from ancient (Near Eastern) history and literature mostly re ferring to statecraft and good wordly behav iour. Dated 1759 A.J. and 1207 A.H., i.e. 1831 A.D. Leather bound volume in quadratic kraton script, written in Surakarta, originally be longing to the Delft collection. Taju Salatin versions and tales are known in Malay and in other Indonesian languages. Cat. Vreede p. 297-302 has references to old editions and literature. LOr 1822 — B-30.303 21 x 35 cm 294 p. 13,5 x 25 cm Javanese 17 lines Bayan Budiman, didactic and mor alistic poem in macapat verse, examples of adventures and enterprises which end un luckily as a consequence of bad behaviour or bad judgement. The introduction resem bles the beginning of the Arabian Nights- the King of Sam desires every night another girl; the vizir offers his daughter; she amuses the King with telling stories. She is called dyah Cantri (cf. Cantri, cod. 4579)- She begins with the story of Budiman, King of the bayan birds (Malay, parrakeet, Jav. ■ bètèt). Budiman has many adventures and tells stories to other personages. In the text several persons known from other tales ai e mentioned: raden Pëkik, son of Gajah Mad a, vizir of Majapahit, Gluga, Slusur and Sam Jugul Muda and Kuntara-Manawa, Udajay a > vizir of Majapahit, and his son. In cod. 18^2 the end of the last tale was missing. It ' ulS been completed from a ms offered to “Volks lektuur” Batavia, 1930. The vizir’s son | s called Yudayaka. The origin of the “Parrots