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KHA O. 6 — B-31.102 — album, green [velvet with gilt decorations 47 x 34 cm 60 photographs 29 x 22 cm Javanese-Malay captions romanized Samba 1 é n a, and Sucipta Hënii} Minta R a g a, wayar}-wot) festival at the Court of Sultan Amëqku Buwana VIII of Yogyakarta, 8-11 february 1926, album with 60 photographs of scenes of the performance, which was never repeated. The decoration of the binding, chased brass, afterwards gilt, shows on top between the dragons the Sul tan’s cipher in Javanese characters (H-Bh-8). Probably it was the giver’s intention that the blank medallion in the centre should be filled in with Queen Wilhelmina’s cipher. The Dutch libretto of the performance, bound in yellow silk, was offered at the same time as the album; it is KHA O. 5. KHA 0.1 — B-31.005 — album, green [leather with gilt [title and decoration 47 x 34,5 cm 50 photographs 29 x 22 cm Dutch captions Minta Rag a, Winata Kwaca 1 é n a, wayarpwat} festival at the Court of Sultan Amerjku Buwana VIII of Yogyakarta, 16-17 January 1937, album with 50 photo graphs of scenes of the performance, which was never repeated. The decoration of the binding, chased brass, afterwards gilt, shows the Sultan’s cipher in Javanese characters (H-Bh-8). The Javanese libretto of the performance, in two volumes, bound in

leather, was offered at the same time as the album; it is KHA O. 8,9. KHA O. 8,9 — B-31.005 — leather [bound, gib 33,5 x 22,5 cm 250 and 770 p. 26 x 14 cm romanized 21 and 28 lines Minta Rag a, Winata Kwaca 1 é n a, libretto of a wayaiywoi} festival at the Court of Sultan Amojku Buwana VIH of Yogyakarta, 16-17 January 1937, given in honour of the marriage of H.R.H. Prin cess Juliana of the Netherlands and H.R.H- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Vol. I, 250 p., contains the kanda, the prose descriptions and introductions °f scenes, which are recited by the performer, the dalaty Vol. II, 770 p., contains the pocapan, the words which are spoken by the actors. Both volumes contain indications refer ring to- the music of the gamelan orchestra. The leather bound album with 50 photo graphs of scenes of the performance, KHA O. 7, was offered at the same time as the libretto volumes. The Paketn Wirama, a treatise on Java nese music, presented by Sultan Amei)ku Buwana VIII of Yogyakarta to the “Konink lijk Bataviaas Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen” in 1932, is in several respects comparable with the librettos of wayarj-wor} festivals in the Royal Household Archives. The Pakëm has been described by the present author in Jaarboek K.B.G. 1933, p. 234 ff. (“Een Vorstelijke Gift”, illustrated).