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ions with the European Government utch and afterwards British). The items not chronologically arranged. Some are dated > some undated. The second sheaf of folios, BL Add. *-•342 (284 folios, 232 pp. copy) contains many i' sts of Royal relatives and servants. T he third sheaf of folios, BL Add. 12.303 80 folios, 68 pp. copy), called “a journal by the late Sultan of Java IHamengkubuwana II)”, see Ricklefs- t °°rhoeve, 1977, p. 47, is in fact an in vesting compilation of Yogyakarta avanese legal texts and books of law A Ogër Agëg, Nawala Pradata, Aqgër rubiru etc -) and treaties (contracts) reg- ^ a ting the relations between the ogyakarta and Surakarta Courts and the V °-C. (see § 47.860). The fourth sheaf of folios, BL Add. • 07 (68 folios, 35 pp. copy) contains a 8ain many lists of landholdings and pay- ments - The two appended Javanese texts in ^ er se mentioned by Dr Ricklefs (p. 53) av e not been copied. Copies of some legal exts are in LOr 1910 (coll. Keyzer). The four BL Add. mss. 12.341, 12.342, -303 and 14.397 were registered by r Ricklefs in his “Inventory of the av anese Manuscript Collection in the “ n tish Museum”, BKI, vol. 125, 1969. He Is cussed several texts in his “Jogjakarta ar| der Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749-1792”, 974, Cf. P.B.R. Carey, in BKI, vol 135, '»*», pp. 354-7.

K'TLV Or 507 27450 x 22 cm outside 4 + 223 pp.,

28 x 18 cm writing romanized typewritten copy, blue linen binding Badad Dipanagaran Surya bjalam, romanticized history of Yogyakarta kings and the Dipa Nagara war (about 1808-’30) in macapat verse, meant to be educative and edifying reading-matter for the author’s descendants. The author was the eldest son of parjéran Dipa Nagara; after the end of the hostilities he was exiled in Sumënëp, where he probably wrote his book. The actors in the story were given pseudonyms; the author’s father parjéran Dipa Nagara is called seh Amog Raga, the name of the well-known here of the Cëntini romance, a prince of Giri who was perse cuted by Sultan Agurj of Mataram and died a martyr. The book seems to contain var ious digressions referring to popular Is lamic legends, Javanese folk-tales and es chatological belief. Surya bjalam is inter alia the name of the hero of a phantastical story which evidently belongs to the popu lar Islamic “pasantrèn” literature (see LOr 6203a, no 22, §31.441, and Lit. of Java, vol. I, p. 221 ff.). The transliteration of the original ms., LOr 6488, which belongs to the collection Hazeu (see Lit. of Java, vol. II, p. 383) was made by radèn tumërjguij Puspa Dininrat of Yogyakarta for Dr Carey of Oxford in 1978. Dr Carey supplied an interesting introduc tion on the identity of the author and pre sented a copy of this remarkable story book to the KITLV in 1979.