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concluding page is decorated with a coloured flowery voluted design; origin probably North Coast. Cat. Vreede p. 4 has a short Dutch note on the ms. Coll. Cornets de Groot, 1871. LOr 2049 — B-31.063 — treebark paper, [damaged, incomplete 24 x 32 cm 101 double p. 18,5 x 27,5 cm Javanese 23 lines Book of Notes and fragments, con taining : 1. Menak Amir Hamza tale, frag mentary (beginning and end are missing). Vide cat. Vreede p. 62 (34 p.); 2. Param a Sastra kawi, in prose, according to the 18th century Central Javanese tradition, beginning with aksara sandi sutra (24 p.); 3. Candra Saqkala (11 p.); 4. DasaNama: short paragraphs con taining synonymous Javanese words, both kawi and modern (40 p.); 5. Katuraijgan, especially medicines of horse, with rajahs (74 p.); 6. notes on p a 1 i n t a v> a n, Arabic divina tion (5 p.). The texts are mentioned in Cat. Vreede p. 375. The ms was written in Surakarta; it contains the date A.J. 1753, i.e. 1826 A.D. Originally belonging to the Cornets de Groot coll, it was in 1871 transferred to the Uni versity Library. LOr 2050 — R-16.510 17 x 20,5 cm 317 double p. 11 x 13 cm Javanese 11 lines Taju Salatin in verse, ms written in Magelai), Central Java, dated 1764 A.J., i.e. 1836 A.D. According to the colophon the

scribe was raden Maqkuprawira. Fine copy written in a rather antique quadratic script (Yogyakarta). Vide Cat. Vreede p. 301. Coll. Cornets de Groot, 1871. LOr 2051 — R-16.540 26 x 39 cm 141 double p. and 124 p. 17 x 23 cm Javanese 17, 23 lines 1. Maknawi book, in verse, containing moralistic Muhammadan tales, beginning with an Iskandar tale, ending with suluk- like passages: questions of Raja Maléka put before TJabdul IJalim. This major text of the ms is dated 1749 A.J., i.e. 1821 A.D. (141 double p.). It is written in large quadratic script, resembling so- called kraton script; 2. (124 p.) is the Nawawi in verse, dated 1754 A.J., i.e. 1826 A.D. It is written in the same kind of script, but (towards the end) smaller. Cat. Vreede p. 306 has a Dutch epitome and collations with other texts, mentioning a passage on iman Sapiqi and pirasat (phy siognomy). Cod. 10.867 contains a list of initial lines of cantos by Soegiarto. Coll- Cornets de Groot, 1871. LOr 2052 — S-49.610 — severely damaged 27 x 40,5 cm 189 double p. 22 x 37 cm Javanese 31 lines Archives of the Bantën Sultanate, census of the population, Royal servants an dependants, all mentioned by name, in tota (mentioned at the end): 31.848 men 0 Surasowan. The census was held by on ^ eI " of Sultan Abdul Mahasin Muhammad Jém 1 IJabidin in 1620 A.J., i.e. 1696 A.D. under supervision of pat)6ran Natawijaya (col° phon). The ms is written in fine West Java