Mrs. E. Andriessen-Lück, though retired, has cooperated in the publication of this book with the same energy as she spent on its predecessors. Her young successor at the Legatum Warnerianum of the Leiden University Library, Mrs. L. Gruys-Faasen, has also contributed to the completion of this volume. The author thanks them both most heartily. Since the author was unable to see this book wholly through the press on account of invalidity the present Keeper of the oriental manuscripts of the Leiden University Library, Mr. J.J. Witkam, has taken the trouble to do it for him. The author is very grateful to Mr. Witkam for his kind help in difficult circumstances. It is worthy of note that the unique palmleaf manuscript LOr 5023 which contains inter alia the only known text of the Old Javanese panegyric poem Nagara Kërtagama (Désa Warnana), written in honour of King Hayam Wuruk of Majapahit, a description of the East Javanese realm in the 14th century, has been repatriated to Java as a symbolic present of H.M. Queen Juliana offered to the President of the Republic of Indonesia in commemora tion of the first visit of an Indonesian Chief of State tot The Netherlands in 1970.*

PRELIMINARY NOTES The system of transliteration of Javanese. Balinese, Malay, Sanskrit and Arabic words and names which is applied in the present book is explained in paragraph 00100 (Latin Script), p. 27-31, of vol. I, 1967. The Leiden University never lends out original manuscripts or copies of manuscripts which are registered as codices in the Catalogues. The codices may be inspected by qualified students in the Reading Room, called Legatum Warnerianum. of the Library. Photostatic copies or microfilms are made available at a reasonable rate to scholars outside Leiden. Priority will be given to requests sent in by university libraries. When a Leiden codex or a reproduction of a Leiden codex is used for a publication in any form (book, article etc.), a free copy or off-print should be sent to the University Library. The Leiden University Library is, of course, not in the position to provide microcopies of codices belonging to other libraries. Applications for copies should be sent direct to the librarians concerned. The paragraph numbers (in italics) in the present book refer to the paragraphs of the Systematic Survey (Synopsis) of Javanese Literature in volume I, 1967.

* On the history of the codex LOr 5023 see Pigeaud. Java in the Fourteenth Century, a Study in Cultural History: the Nagara Kërtagama by Rakawi Prapanca of Majapahit, 1365, vol. I, Text, p. XI ff.. The Hague. 1960.