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teenth century poetic versions in Indian metres and in macapat verse. As a rule the later versions are called Déwa Ruci or Bima Suci. A Déwa Ruci text was published already in 1S73 in Semarary The tale was also dramatized as a waya^ purwa play. Kawi-miriv, versions have been registered under 30.904. 31.041 Bima Suci, macapat verse: cod. 2318. 31.042 Déwa Ruci, macapat verse, concise version, illustrated, Yogyakarta: cod. KHA 0 4. 31.043 Déwa Ruci, wayai3 purwa play, prose, Yogyakarta: cod. CB 26 (= CB 129). 31.060 Ménak Amir Hamza epic, Yasadipura. The versatile Surakarta Court poets Yasadipura I and Yasadipura II also paid attention to the Ménak Amir Hamza tales, which were known in Java since the sixteenth century (see 30.460). In accordance with the encyclopedic tendency of the Surakarta renaissance of literature they wrote a comprehensive epic poem of the exploits of the Muslim hero. Many epi sodes described in older Ménak poems dating from the Pasisir period were incorporated into the poem, several were left out, how ever. Perhaps not all Ménak tales current in the Pasisir districts and East Java were known to the poets of Surakarta. This Ménak compendium is comparable with the great collections of wayai} purwa plays (Pandawa tales), and Panji romances, also chronologi cally (or pseudo-chronologically) arranged by Surakarta Court scholars (31.080 and 30.880).

Poerbatjaraka’s book on the Ménak cycle of tales (KBG, 1940) contains a summary of the epic. It was published several times, lastly by Balé Pustaka in Batavia (see Poer batjaraka’s “Kapustakan Djawi”, p. 148) in 24 books, named after the principal persona ges, countries or events: 1: Ménak Saréyas, 2 : Ménak Laré, 3: Ménak Sërandil, 4: Ménak Sulub, 5: Ménak Bajrak, 6: Ménak Dëmis, 7: Ménak Kaos or Ménak Jobin, 8: Ménak Kuristam, 9: Ménak Biraji, 10: Ménak Kanin, 11: Ménak Gandruty 12: Ménak Kanjun, 13: Ménak Kanda Bumi, 14: Ménak Kuwari, 15: Ménak Cina, 16: Ménak Ma- lébari, 17: Ménak Purwa Kanda, 18: Ménak Kustub, 19: Ménak Kala Kodrat, 20: Ménak Sorarjan, 21: Ménak Jamintoran, 22 : Ménak Jaminambar, 23: Ménak Talsamat, 24: Mé nak Lakad. The Ménak Lakad tale refers to an episode of the Prophet’s life, therefore Lakad texts have been registered in the pre sent Synopsis in Part Two, History (22.020). Many names of personages and countries appearing in the Ménak Amir Hamza epic are of Indian-Persian origin. Though corrupt in the Javanese texts, the original names often are identifiable by collation with the Malay hikayat Amir Hamza, written in Arabic script. 31.061 Ménak Amir Hamza epic, by Yasa dipura, (almost) complete text: cod. 1787. 31.062 Ménak Amir Hamza epic, Yasadi pura version, loose episodes, beginning: cod. 2027 (Ménak Laré, compendium), 2053 (Ménak Laré fragment), 2171 (Mé nak Laré), 4028 (Ménak Laré), 10.799 (Ménak Laré), 10.810 (Ménak Laré etc.), NBS 48 (Ménak Laré etc.), NBS 150