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served Siga Wijaya, a former Regent of a sëm, also of Chinese origin, and was ^ ade tu mëi3gui3 is his place by the Sultan of at aram as a reward for his services in the w ith Surabaya. Many Regents of as em, Tuban, Kudus, Blora and Boja ^ a gara are said to be descendants of Mërta ' n a, and allied by marriage with Chinese families. . The manuscript is unique in providing °rrnation on the origin and rise of a amily of Chinese business people in Cen tal Java in the nineteenth century. Nothing ls known of the authorship of the book. The ^her may have been a Javanese or Sino- v anese dependant, either male or female. 0 Ho Sii] is always given the honorific Plicate mBah (short for Babah, Master, r )- The manuscript was acquired by pur chase from Liem Ek Lian, a Chinese gent- ^man of Semarang, in 1970; Dr H.J. de r aaf was the intermediary.

KITLV Or 410 3s ’ 5 x 24,5 cm outside ^ X 20 cm writing and plates

41.940 30 pp. text, 30 plates, Jav. script

modern paper, 28 lines, bound in blue linen, as a photo album Pawukon, modern Javanese prose tre atise on the 30 wukus, their qualities and au spicious or inauspicious influence on Suntan life, with 30 polychrome plates, opposite to the 30 pages of Javanese text, s howing the wukus personified, with their

attributes, a divine patron, a tree, a bird and a building of some kind, depicted in good wayai3 style. The text is written in good Surakarta cursive script, in the ijoko idiom. The manuscript was copied in Surakarta about 1957 by order of R. A. Atma Supana, an official of the forestry department, as a memento for Mr W. Bernasco, one of the chiefs of that department, who had left Java and settled in Denia (Alicante, Spain). This appears from some Dutch letters inserted in the codex Or 410a. The three codexes Or 410, 410a and 410b were presented to the Institute in 1969 by Mr Bernasco. KITLV Or 410a 41.940 33 x 22 cm outside 15 leaves, and in- 27 x 20 cm writing serted papers, Dutch type script modern paper, a- bout 55 lines, bound in half linen (red), half green marbled paper Pawukon, Dutch translation of the Javanese text of ms Or 410. The translation was made by a Javanese gentleman (either R. A. Atma Supana himself or one of his assistants). It is not complete, but some idea of the contents of the pawukon may be obtained from it. The papers which are inserted in ms Or 410a are, a Dutch letter of R. A. Atma Supana of 5/9/’57 addressed to Mr Bernasco, and some loose leaves, con taining explanations of the Javanese chronology; a letter of Mr Bernasco of 26/8/’69 addressed to Mr Nieuwenhuys,