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the Museum (Bataviaas Genootschap van unsten en Wetenschappen, Batavian Society of Arts and Science) in 1778. Pre sented to the Library by the Museum Pusat. 14 -2i8 1 7 'mo 30.5 X 21,5 cm 11 pp. outside romanized 25.5 x 18 cm writ ing typewritten copy, paper bound Sastra Gëndirj, didactic poem as cribed to Sultan Agug of Mataram, 5 cantos (sinom, asmaradana, sarkara, parjkur, durma), copy of ms KBG 38, provided with a short Javanese apergu by Mundi Sura, Published by request of the Konservatori Karawitan Indonesia (Indonesian Conser vatory of Music) of Surakarta. Presented to ttle Library by the Museum Pusat. l4 -229 25.620 22 X 21,5 cm out- 12 + 34 + 85 + 2 s ’^ e leaves 2^ X 17 cm (i n 2 Javanese script columns) writing cardboard binding, “Middle Hill boards” Carita Mëndag Kamolan, Babad l^ëmak-Mataram beginning with Lëmbu Pëtëq up to the meeting of Sénapati hfataram and 5)ahi Kidul, in macapat Vers e, dated A.J. 1711 = A.D. 1784. The

Javanese is written on the inner half of the page only, the outer half contains a literal English translation. The first part of the text (partly misbound, upside down) seems to be written by a European hand, that also wrote the translations, and the exercises of Javanese writing on some leaves at the end of the book. The major part of the text is in good 18th century North Pasisir script, and the English translations are missing. The text ends abruptly. The exercises of Javanese writing consist of the ana caraka with pasagans and sandagans, and some copies of lines of authentic Javanese letters of adipati Sura Adi Më 13 gal a of Japara, provided with Malay glosses written under the lines. The ms belonged originally to W. Robin son, a Baptist missionary residing in Batavia from 1813, who probably wrote also the English translations and exercises in the course of his study of Javanese. See Swellengrebel, In Ley decker’s Voetspoor, 1974, on the oldest translations of the Bible in Indonesian languages. LOrl4.229 - ’32 were bought in 1974 in the Sotheby AKBAR sale of the Bib liotheca Phillippica (Phillipps library) in London. See Ricklefs’ notes and descrip tions on the lots 659 (Phillipps 17034) and 661 (Phillipps 17033, 16450 and 22792), his introduction to the Sotheby AKBAR sale catalogue, 1974, p. 32-35, and also P.B.R. Carey, The Sepoy Conspiracy of 1815 in Java, BKI 133, 1977, p. 322, note 117. 14.230 19.040 33,5 x 21,5 cm 12 + 4 + 6 leaves outside Javanese script 25 x 16 cm writing