'A rejung and two letters'. Romanized transliteration by Mrs. Voorhoeve, 2ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/39, part).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/105
Dates:
1960s
Description:

The original is a bamboo cylinder incised with 17 lines of text in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay. The rejung = pantuns occupy lines 1-12, beginning:

Ini surat radjung sabahtang

Kahmpa' lahding sulang baranaj

Sambilu dikumbah djahngan

Sahra' daging tulang batjarai.

The two short letters in lines 13-17 are in another hand and are of formal content, being acknowledgments. (V.Oph.151.IV = L.Or.12275)

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Collection:
Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)