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Persian and Turkish, and further mostly Archipelago languages. Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese are excluded. Though many Javanese codexes are copies and dupli cates, still Java and Bali are first and foremost in quantity (numbers of texts) among the oriental countries which supplied manuscripts to the Leiden Univer sity Library. The Oriental Department of the Leiden University Library grew around the Legatum Warnerianum, originally a collection of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish manuscripts bequeathed by Warner, a seventeenth century ambassador of the Republic of the United Netherlands to the Court of Constantinople. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the attention of Leiden orientalists was focussed on the Near East. The Leiden University Library is fortunate in possessing two> sixteenth century Javanese manuscripts, cod. LOr 266 and 1928. The age is certified by the fact that they were brought to The Netherlands as curiosities from the far eastern islands by the first Dutch navigators visiting the Archipelago some years before 1600. At the time the Leiden scholars could not read, let alone explain, the manuscripts. So the texts were almost forgotten till the last decades of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century they were edited and translated in scholarly publications (see 14.000 ff.). Perhaps cod. LOr 3050, 10.811 and 11.092 are to lie reckoned to this group also. Certain palmleaf and treebark manuscripts containing texts written in an anti quated script may also date from the sixteenth century or even before. It is impossible to ascertain their exact age. Anyhow Javanese manuscripts older than two centuries are extremely rare. The charters engraved on copperplates and stone slabs are the only really old documents of Javanese literature. The oldest date from the eighth century. Not until the middle of the nineteenth century was a serious study made of the Archipelago languages and literatures. The collection of Javanese manuscripts °f the Leiden University Library came into prominence in consequence of the acquisition of codexes collected in Java for the training colleges for East Indian civil service officials which were established at the suggestion of professor Roorda, of Delft and Leiden. In the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twen tieth century the collections of Indonesian manuscripts grew rapidly by bequests, acquisitions and loans (see P. Voorhoeve, “Indonesische Handschriften in de Universiteitsbibliotheek te Leiden”, BKI vol. 108, 1952, and E. M. Uhlenbeck, The Languages of Java and Madura”, 1964, p. 42 ff. and p. 108 ff.). The collection of Javanese LOr codexes (see 50.010) has been built up gradually. In the following list the principal groups, acquisitions and bequests are registered chronologically. In several cases groups of manuscripts were collected together in one district of Java. Therefore knowledge about the group may be