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In the frame of the present book it seems useful to describe first the structures of the previous catalogues of Javanese manuscripts of the Leiden University Library, written by Vreede, Brandes, Juynboll and Voorhoeve, in order to make clear the differences between them. The first scholarly catalogue of the Leiden collection is the “Catalogus van de Javaansche en Madoereesche Handschriften der Leidsche Universiteitsbliblio- theek”, by professor A. C. Vreede (1892). It was followed in 1907 and 1911 by two books called “Supplement op den Catalogus van de Javaansche en Madoereesche Handschriften”, vol. I and II, written by Dr H. H. Juynboll. Dr Juynboll also wrote a “Catalogus van de Maleische en Sundaneesche Handschriften der Leidsche Universiteits-bibliotheek” (1899), a “Supplement op den catalogus van de Sunda neesche handschriften en catalogus van de Balineesche en Sasaksche handschriften" (1929) and a “Catalogus der Javaansche, Balineesche en Madoereesche Hand schriften van het Kon. Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Ned.-Indië”, BKI vol. 69, 1914. In the present book these catalogues are referred to as cat. Vreede, cat. Juynboll I, cat. Juynboll II, cat. Juynboll III, Balinese, and Catalogue BKI vol. 69. There has seldom been occasion to quote Jiiynboll’s Malay and Sundanese catalogue of 1899. Vreede’s catalogue and Juynboll’s catalogues have approximately the same structure. They start from a systematic classification of the whole mass of literary works. Vreede begins with epic poetry, mythology and legendary history, etc. Juynboll is even more systematic, he divides poetry written in various metres from prose texts. In consequence of this classification in Vreede’s and Juynboll’s catalogues many codexes are described in several places, because many Javanese codexes are compilations, containing several texts, both in verse and in prose, sometimes not inter-related as to subject- matter. Therefore Vreede’s and Juynboll s catalogues have two indexes each. One index is alphabetical, mentioning names of texts and pages of the catalogues where codexes containing those texts are described. The other index contains numbers of codexes with references to pages of the catalogues where they are mentioned. In the present book the pages of Vreede’s and Juynboll’s catalogues where a given codex is discussed are mentioned in the descriptions. It is strongly recom mended to look up the indicated passages of the older catalogues because in many cases Vreede and Juynboll inserted Dutch q>itomes (summaries) of narrative works which are very interesting. As a rule the present author prefers to confine himself to giving short indications of the contents of the codexes, for the rest referring to books or papers on Javanese literature (see 00140). Brandes wrote a paper containing corrections of mistakes noticed in Vreede’s catalogue (TBG vol. 35, 1893). In cases where the present author’s opinion differs from those of his predecessors the latters’ statements are corrected in the descriptions