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manuscript, and they are distributed to various libraries in Indonesia, Europe, Australia and the U.S.A.* Dr Hooykaas’ agent in Bali in carrying out this project is I Gusti ïsfurah Këtut Sagka of Krambitan, district of Tabanan, South Bali, a Balinese gentleman of standing who uses his authority and wide connections in the country to persuade owners of palmleaf manuscripts to have them copied. The originals remain in Bali as a matter of course. Directed by Dr Hooykaas, Këtut Saqka makes a selection of the palmleaf manuscripts offered for copying in order that the number of doubles should not become excessive. He gives also names to those palmleaf manuscripts which are nameless, being in fact mere collections of notes or selected passages from greater works. The extensive Index of Names and Subjects which forms the third part of the present volume is meant to be a help in finding interesting texts in this rather indiscriminate collection of Javano-Balinese literature. At the time of the publishing of the present supplementary volume of the Leiden Catalogue the project Hooykaas-Këtut Saijka in Bali is still progressing. Romanized copies of manuscripts are still fairly regularly received by librarians who expressed their interest in the project in the past. Nevertheless it was decided to bring the publication of the descriptions of the Hooykaas-Këtut Sagka copies to a premature termination in order that this supplementary volume should not become excessively large. It is hoped that the descriptions of the remaining items of the collection and the copies which are still to come will be published in a following volume of the Leiden Catalogue. The same should be said °f the descriptions of the texts written in the Balinese and Sasak vernaculars, which are nlso found among the romanized copies sent from Bali.

) Libraries which possess sets of the Hooykaas-Këtut Sarjka collection, either complete or incomplete (due to various circumstances) are, besides the Leiden University Library, the library of Cornell University, Ithaca NY, U.S.A., the University of Sydney, Australia, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, the British Library (British Museum), London, the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and in Indonesia, the bakultas Sastra Udayana of Den Pasar, Bali, the Yayasan Kirtya of Sitjaraja, Bali, and the Perpustakaan Museum Nasional of Jakarta. In the present volume IV of the Leiden catalogue the items of the collection Hooykaas-Këtut Sagka have been registered in succession according to the dates of the arrival of the parcels from Bali. The LOr codex numbers .660-15.015 (with considerable gaps) which cover the Hooykaas-Këtut Sarjka collection do not correspond With the numbers given by Këtut Sarska to part of the items which he sent from Bali. His numbering was found 'o be inconsistent. Students working on texts belonging to the Hooykaas-Këtut Sarjka collection available in e foreign libraries named above can find further information in the present Leiden catalogue by looking up c titles of those texts in the Index of Names and Subjects, which refers to LOr codex numbers and paragraph numbers (in italics) of the Synopsis of Javanese literature in vol. I, 1967, of “Literature of Java”. Moreover a Reference List of Këtut Sarjka’s dispatch numbers (in the parcels sent from Bali between 1970 and 1976), and ** w' den C ° deX numbers ( LOr ) has been appended to this volume. hile the proof sheets of this book were still being corrected the sad news came that Dr. Hooykaas was killed m a traffic accident in The Hague on 13 August 1979.