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districts to make a copy of the revered text for their own use, to show off in the recital meetings. Therefore many palmleaf manu scripts were provided with decorated wooden boards. Even in the twentieth century palm- leaf manuscripts were still made for show, though good paper was to be had at a low price so that paper copies in ink could have been made easily (see 00130). Probably the text of the Yusup poem which was current in East Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok originally dates from the seven teenth century. It has some antique features. In the course of time many scribes made alterations, and in numerous manuscripts edifying passages were inserted. Recon struction of the original text, though not impossible, would take much time. The East Javanese text was probably written by some scholar belonging to the Muslim religious community of Giri and Surabaya. All Yusup poems are in macapat metres and written in Javanese script. Under the present head manuscripts con taining the old Last Javanese text, complete or incomplete, simple or provided with in sertions, are collected. They have been ar ranged according to their origin, from Java (and Madura) or Bali (and Lombok). Un der the next head a later Yusup text written in Central Java will be discussed. 30.521 Yusup romance from East Java and Madura, complete or nearly complete texts: cod. 4936, 7122, 8379, 8777, 9037, 9052, 9058, 9066, 9069, 9071, 10.875, REM 2540-8, REM 2599-10, REM 3155-204, CB 1, AdKIT 321/1, AdKIT 1216/1, AdKIT A 4849/b, RtMLV 24151, Utr RUB IndSt Hs. 1. D. 8, Utr RUB IndSt. Hs. 1. D. 10, dHMvO 516.

30.522 Yusup romance from East Java and Madura, extensive texts, with edifying in sertions : cod. 4918, 8785, Krg 3, Nst 15, AdKIT 455/1, AdKIT 1524/1, AdKIT 1656/1. AdKIT 1837/1, RtMLV 34456, RtMLV 34457. 30.523 Yusup romance, texts from East Java and Madura, copies on paper: cod. 5781, 6693, 8313 (one photocopy), NBS 86. 30.524 Yusup romance from East Java and Madura, incomplete, partially damaged: cod. 1912, 8438, 8963, 9005, 9022, 9030, 9032, 9038, 9064, 9067, 9070, 10.883, 10.884, CB 3, CB 4, REM 1994-21, REM 2929-9, AdKIT 29/76, AdKIT 49/1, AdKIT 715/1, AdKIT 740/33, AdKIT H 971, RtMLV 27869, RtMLV 28858, Utr RUB IndSt Hs. 1. D. 9, Utr RUB IndSt Hs. 1. D. 17. 30.525 Yusup romance from East Java and Madura, incomplete, fragmentary, severely damaged or mutilated: cod. 6268, 6954, 6955a, 9008, 9009, 9010, 9011, 9016, 9017, 9018, 9019, 9020, 9023, 9024, 9027, 9028, 9031, 9033, 9034, 9035, 9036, 9040, 9041, 9050, 9051, 9053, 9054, 9057, 9060, 9061, 9062, 9068, 9070, 9072, 9074, CB 2, Krg 1, Krg 2, Nst 1, Nst 2, Nst 3, Nst 4, Nst 5, Nst 6, Nst 11, Nst 16, Nst 19, REM 1974-1, REM 1974-2, REM 1994-10, REM 1994-11, REM 1994-14, REM 1994-17, REM 1994-18, REM 1994-19, REM 1994-20, REM 2405-1, REM 2424-1, REM 2599-9, AdKIT 455/2, AdKIT 654/1, AdKIT 838/7a, AdKIT 1216/2, AdKIT 1221/1, AdKIT 1324/2, AdKIT 2356/11, AdKIT A 4180, AdGUB 66, AdGUB 67, Rt-