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Systematic collecting of Javanese manuscripts was done in Surakarta in the first half of the nineteenth century by the Dutch scholars Gericke, Winter and Wilkens who were living there at the time. They had excellent relations with the Surakarta Court and the Javanese scholars who were advocates of the renascence of classical literature. Fine copies of manuscripts belonging to good Javanese collections were made under the supervision of the Dutch scholars. They were sent to professor Roorda, who at the time was propagating the scholarly study of Javanese in The Netherlands. The early nineteenth century copies, the Delft collection (see 50.004), formed the substantial beginning of the Leiden University Library collection. In Surakarta the Pahëman Radya Pustaka, a Javanese Royal Literary Society, went through a flourishing period under the patronage of the energetic grand-vizir Sasradiningrat in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The manuscripts collected in the Radya Pustaka library mostly belong to the Surakarta literature of the Ratjga Warsita period. Some of them were copied for the use of the present author, and copies were sent to the Leiden University Library. Another period of systematic collecting of Central Javanese manuscripts was inaugurated by the foundation Panti Budaya, established in Surakarta and Yogya- karta in 1930. Provisional descriptions of part of the Panti Budaya collection were published in the Annual Reports of the Batavian Society (“Jaarboeken KBG”). So were descriptions of manuscripts collected for the use of the Government lexicographer of Javanese in Yogyakarta. The latter collection included several manuscripts originating from East and West Javanese districts. The descriptions in the “Jaarboeken KBG” were made by the present author. After world war II the whereabouts of the Yogyakarta collections were difficult to trace. The present volume of Literature of Java includes as appendices (50.050 ff.) lists of manuscripts belonging to the Batavian Society collection and the two Yogyakarta collections, with references to the volumes of the “Jaarboeken KBG” where they are registered or described. Of course, these lists do not convey much valuable information on the contents of the manuscripts. Yet they may be of some use to students of Javanese literature, as long as systematic descriptive catalogues of the Java collections are not available (see also 50.006). The plan of entering the Java collections for reference into the General Index (volume III of the present book) lias been abandoned on account of the partly unsatisfactory descriptions of the manuscripts and the uncertainty about their present condition. So the catchwords of the General Index refer exclusively to manuscripts in accessible collections in The Netherlands. The same line has been adopted in the case of the collection Kintya Liefrinck-van der Tuuk of Sirjaraja, Bali (see 50.003). In the collection of the Batavian Society the nine original collections which