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the text may be included as second or third etc. item in a compilation. In the present book compilations are called after the first text, and only registered under* the para graph of the first text. This is done in order to avoid an excess of cross-references. There fore it is strongly recommended, when looking for manuscripts of a particular text, to make use of the General Index in Volume Three. It refers to all codexes containing a wanted text, even if that text is a second or third item (see also 50.009 and 70.001, Introduc tory Remarks on the Descriptions and on the General Index). The numbers of those codexes which are copies, either in Javanese, Balinese or Arabic script, or romanized, are, preceded by a sign of equality, put between brackets behind the numbers of the original codexes, e.g.: cod. 3786 (= 4468). Most copies which have numbers above 10.000, and copies belonging to the BCB collection, are romanized; they

have been made by Mr Soegiarto. The ori ginal numbers of the Kirtya collection, in Bali, are also put between brackets, e.g.: 9172 (Krt 156). The Kirtya codexes in the Leiden University Library are all romanized. The descriptions of the LOr codexes and the codexes belonging to the smaller collec tions, in volume Two, contain full particulars on the origin of the manuscripts and their inter-relationship. In the present book on Literature of Java paragraphs are numbered consecutively throughout the three volumes, from 0001 up to 70.000 ff. 00001—49.970 are in volume One, Synopsis of Javanese Literature. 50.000 ff. are in volume Two, Lists of Manuscripts. 60.000 ff. and 70.000 ff. are in volume Three, Illustrations etc. and General Index.