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mentioned only once in the Synopsis under the paragraph of their first text, have been registered in the General Index under the names of all their texts. In the second place many entries of the General Index refer to paragraphs of the Synopsis of Javanese Literature in the first volume. Secundary references, to paragraphs (always printed in italics), are mostly combined with primary ones, to codexes. Numbers without distinctive letters are LOr codexes. Other codexes are indicated by abbreviated names of libraries or collections (see List of Abbreviations). In several cases it seemed practical, in order to save space, to refer to paragraphs only, without repeating the numbers of codexes listed in the Synopsis. The distribution of paragraphs over the three volumes of “Literature of Java” is as follows: §§ 00001-49.970 are in Vol. I, Synopsis §§ 50.001-50.070 are in Vol. II, Descriptive Lists §§ 60.001 -70.000 are in Vol. Ill, Illustrations, Facsimiles, Minor Lists and Addenda. References to (romanized) copies of texts by Soegiarto, belonging to the Soegiarto collection (see § 50.004-XXXI and XLII, and § 60.355) and the BCB collection (see § 50.005-V and § 50.025) have been left out of the Index in all those cases where they were made superfluous by references to the original codexes and to paragraphs of the Synopsis. This has been done for the sake of brevity. The Soegiarto copies are registered under the original codex numbers, both in the Synopsis and in the Descriptive Lists. Many editions of Javanese texts and publications on Javanese literature have been mentioned in the old catalogues by Vreede, Juynboll and Brandes (see § 50.008), in the Biliography (§ 00140), in the paragraphs of the Synopsis (Vol. I) and in the descriptions in the Lists of Manuscripts (Vol. II). Still it seemed useful to supplement the bibliographic information in the present book by inserting references to the “Pratélan” (abbreviated “Prat.”) in the General Index. The “Pratélan kawontenan 113 Buku-buku basa Jawi citakan iqkaii) kasimpën irj Gëdot} Buku Museum K.B.G.” by Purwa Suwigna and Wira Wat)sa (Batavia/Djakarta, 1921, 2 vols) is a descriptive catalogue containing Javanese summaries of the printed Javanese books in the K.B.G. library (now Museum Pusat Këbudayaan Indonesia). The years of first issue of the Javanese books (19th and 20th century) have been indicated in the Index in accordance with the statements of the “Pratélan”. It is hoped that the insertion of references h> this valuable source of information in the Index may induce students of Javanese literature to make more use of it than has been done until now. It is a fact that the printed Catalogues of the library of the Royal Institute