PREFACE

The second volume of “Literature of Java”, which is hereby offered to the public, contains the Descriptive Lists of Javanese Manuscripts which are to take the place of the old Dutch Catalogues of the Library of the University of Leiden, and to continue them up to 1967. The relation between the present book and its Dutch predecessors has been touched upon in the Preface to Volume One. It will be explained more fully in the following Introduction. The author wishes to repeat his acknowledgments to the institutions and persons mentioned in the Preface to Volume One. In particular he feels grateful to the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.), at The Hague, for their willingness to provide the funds for the publication of the present book, and he expresses his thanks to Dr E. M. Uhlenbeck, the Leiden professor of Javanese, for the sympathy, advice and assistance given freely during the years of preparation of “Literature of Java”. It will be seen that the name of Mr J. Soegiarto appears on many pages of the present volume as the maker of technical descriptions of Javanese manuscripts. Compiling the Lists of Javanese Manuscripts in Public Collections in Java and Bali (Museum Pusat, Djakarta, and Gcdong Kirtya, Singaradja) was entrusted to Mrs E. Andriessen-Lfick. The work of these two co-operators towards the fulfilment of the author’s task deserves the fullest appreciation. Their contributions have added considerably to the usefulness of the book.