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the sixteenth century was conquered and made into a Muslim state by Cërbon Java nese is Banten. In the beginning Bantën flourished as a trading centre. In the seven teenth century it was superseded by its neighbour and rival, Dutch Jakarta-Batavia, and in the eighteenth century it fell into decay. The Bantën Sultans were orthodox Muslims and at their Court Arabic scholar ship was prized. They did not live in the odour of sanctity, however, like their elder relatives the Cërbon Sultans, nor did they radiate a strong Javanese cultural influence in the Sundanese interior of their country. For the major part the interior of the Bantën Sultanate remained Sundanese. An old Sundanese community, the Baduy people, living in voluntary isolation according to pre-Islamic ideas on religious and social order, has held out until to-day (see N. J. C. Geise, “Badujs en Moslims in Lëbak “Parahiang, Zuid Bantën”, 1952). lit is worth noticing that the West Java nese Bantën Court, in the eighteenth century backed by Dutch East India Company officials, held sway over the Lam put) dis tricts of South Sumatra, producers of the best pepper in the market. Some eighteenth century Javanese charters issued by Bantën Sultans for Lampui) districts have been registered under the head regulations (48.200). Under the present head Javanese histories of the Bantën Sultanate are collected. Some of them have been edited by Professor Hoesein Djajadiningrat, who was a member of a noble Bantën family, and by Mr. Edel. In the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth cen tury Professor Snouck Hurgonje collected

many manuscripts containing information on all matters concerning Bantën, the Sunda districts and Cërbon. References to those manuscripts are to be found in the General Index under the catchword Bantën. 24.110 Sajarah Bantën, genealogy: cod. 4818 (genealogy). 24.120 Sajarah Bantën ranté-ranté, gene alogy : cod. 7388, KITLV Or 267. 24.130 Sajarah Bantën, major version (I), Sandi Maya - Sandi Sastra: cod. 6532 (KBG Brandes 296), 7387, 7390, 8605. 24.140 Sajarah Bantën, minor version (III): cod. 1982, 7389, 7570. 24.150 Bantën legendary history': cod. 6530 (KBG 183), 7420 (Sajarah haji Mansur). 24.160 Notes on genealogy, Bantën, Sunda, Waruga Jagat: cod. 11.014, NBS 239. 24.200 Pal ém bat) hi s tor y. Javanese cultural and political influence in Central Sumatra dates from the thirteenth century or even before. In the legendary history of the beginning of the Islamic period in East Java, about 1500 A.D., a ruler of Palémbai) occupies an important place. Probably there is some truth in the tradition saying that at the time East Javanese and Palémbai) Royal families were related. The Palémbai) district was converted to Islam in the same period as the trading towns on the North Coast of Java, and they were partners in the interinsular Pasisir culture. In the eighteenth century Javanese was the Court language in Palémbai). Remnants of Royal regulations from Palémbat) are