'A letter and Tuah ayam'. Romanized transliteration by Mrs. Voorhoeve, December 1967, 1 + 6ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/39, part).
- Reference No:
- U DJA/2/110
- Dates:
- Dec 1967
- Description:
The original consists of 21 bamboo strips, incised in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay (V.Oph.151.IX = L.Or.12280). The letter, in 4 strips, begins:
Ini surat Dapati Kaluba dangan Baginda Matari
Dapati Tjite Mandi, kalu da'tawu uli radja ...
The Tuah ayam consists of 17 strips, 12 marked ga to ra (= 2-13), with 5 others coloured and shaped with texts. There is some Javanese vocabulary at the beginning:
Musi karing balibing putus
Ugan madjadi padang landas
Litang madjadi Patjur tinggi
Lawut madjadi padang bongin.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
- Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)