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assistance towards the completion of his task given him by librarians and staff- members of Institutes to which these minor collections belong. Perhaps in a near future the non-Javanese manuscripts in the minor collections (Malay, Sundanese, Balinese etc.) also will find describers. The Leiden University Library is not sufficiently equipped to act as an inter mediary between scholars abroad and the librarians of libraries elsewhere in The Netherlands where minor collections of manuscripts are preserved. Those who are interested in the codexes which are mentioned in this paragraph, and described in 50.030-50.042, should approach the responsible librarians direct. The same applies to the micro-copies mentioned in 50.005 and described in 50.029, and a fortiori to the manuscripts belonging to the collections in Java and Bali of which the nominal lists have been included in the present volume for information only (see 50.002 and 50.003, 50.050-50.070). I. The most important minor collection of Indonesian manuscripts in The Netherlands is the collection of the “Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde” (Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology), formerly of The Hague, but recently transferred to Leiden. Javanese texts are found both in the collection of oriental codexes and in the Dutch collection. The oriental collection is marked KITLV Or (see 50.030), the Dutch one: KITLV H (i.e. Holland), (see 50.031). A considerable part of the oriental collection was cata logued by H. H. Juynboll (BKI vol. 69, 1914). The Dutch collection, mostly containing miscellaneous papers on things Javanese, has been catalogued by H. de Graaf, 1963. N. Another important minor collection of Indonesian manuscripts in The Netherlands is in the “Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen”, formerly called “Koninklijk Koloniaal Instituut”, of Amsterdam. The manuscripts are marked AdKIT (see 50.032). Two older collections are amalgamated in the Amsterdam collection: AdKIT A refers to an old collection of Artis, i.e. the Zoological Garden called Natura Artis Magistra, and AdKIT H refers to another old collection belonging to a dissolved museum of ethnography in Haarlem. The collections of the Amsterdam Museum for the Tropics have been partly catalogued in the “Aanwinsten van het Koloniaal Instituut”, 1933. III. The third important minor collection in The Netherlands belongs to the municipal Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde” of Rotterdam. The manuscripts are marked RtMLV (see 50.033). Small collections originally belonging to Dutch Reformed missionary societies were amal gamated in the Rotterdam museum. No printed catalogue is available.