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THE MINOR COLLECTIONS OF THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (50.005) Beside the major collection of Javanese manuscripts, LOr 266-11.103, which has been described superficially in the preceding pages, the Leiden University Library contains several minor collections, mostly given on loan. I. The first loan collection consists of manuscripts belonging to the ' Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen” of Amster dam. In the present book they are marked with the initials KNAW. The collection was described in 1862 by P. de Jong: “Catalogus Codicum Orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Regiae Scientiarum”. Javanese manuscripts form a very small minority (see 50.020). The majority consists of codexes from the Near East. II. In the beginning of the twentieth century the Directors of the “Neder lands Bijbel Genootschap” of Amsterdam granted the University Library the loan of their very important collections of Indonesian manuscripts. In the present book they are marked with the initials NBS: Netherlands Bible Society (see 50.021). The Javanese codexes were partly described in 1870 by Dr Engelmann (“Tijdschrift van Nederlandsch Indië , 1870, II). Codex LOr 8766 contains an extensive catalogue of the Javanese Bible Society manuscripts by Dr Brandes. They were collected in Java by the Bible Society scholars Gericke, Van der Vlis and Engelmann. In addition to Javanese manuscripts, the collection contains also Buginese, Makasarese, Malay and Sunda- nese texts, which are out of the sphere of the present book. III. In 1929 a collection of 19 palmleaf manuscripts from East Java was given on loan by Mr H. H. Noosten. They are marked Nst (see 50.022). IV. In 1935 a considerable collection of Indonesian manuscripts, partly Javanese, originally preserved in the municipal Ethnographic Museum of Delft, was given on loan ito the Library. The Delft collection is marked DFT S (see 50.023). V. In 1950 and following years manuscripts and papers mostly referring to Javanese-Balinese and Javanese literature collected by professor C. C. Berg were entered as two minor collections into the Library. The first collection Berg is marked CB (see 50.024). It contains: A. (CB 1-38): palmleaf manuscripts and Javanese texts; B. (CB 39-124 and 149-153): Javanese-Balinese texts, mainly copies of manuscripts at the time belonging to Gusti Putu Jlantik of Sirpiraja, and also found in the Kirtya collection (see LOr 9075- 10.391, major collection, 50.004, coll. XXXVII);