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Supplement to the DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF JAVANESE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Additions and Loose Acquisitions registered between 1969 and 1971

3299 15.520 22 X 17,5 cm out- 95 folios side Arab, script 17 x 14 cm writing 11 lines Arab, paper recently bound Collection of Arabic and Malay Prayers. A Javanese prayer called c umur dunya, after the initial words, is mentioned °n p. 9. It is a prayer for a blessing on the world in general. More Javano-Arabic Prayers are mentioned in the last part of the booklet, which apparently was a handbook °f a Muslim divine who was repeatedly called upon to say a prayer on various occasions. The book is worn by long use. The Arabic script is clumsily written. Coll. v -d. Tuuk, 1896, from West Java. 3343-VI 49.610 33 X 15 cm Arab, script 6 pp. portfolio Portfolio containing 13 files or sheaves of notes written by Dr. van der Tuuk in

Jakarta (Batavia) about 1870 as a supplementary description of the collection of Arabic and Indonesian manuscripts in the Museum of the Batavian Society (KGB, now called Museum Pusat Kebudayaan In donesia). The contents of the portfolio were cursorily described by professor van Ronkel in his «Supplement-Catalogus der Maleische en Minangkabausche Hand schriften in de Leidsche Universiteits-bi- bliotheek» 1921, p. 258. Dr. van der Tuuk copied passages of the texts he found in the manuscripts using the script of the original, either Arabic or Javanese. He did not transliterate the texts. His Arabic and Javanese handwriting is not easy to read, even less so than his Dutch writing. The Javanese words written in Arabic script are mostly unvocalised (gondii). The sheaf marked G (formerly K) contains, besides notes on several Aarabic texts (some of them provided with Malay or Javanese glosses or partial translations), a note numbered VI (folio 18A-20B, about 6 pp.) referring to «a small folio volume written on European paper, almost four fingers thick» (translation of van der Tuuk’s Dutch description). The codex number of the KBG collection is unknown. The text appears to be a report of a census