'Rejung': Pantun, pastoral songs and 'Pakeling': A warning. Romanized transliteration by Mrs. Voorhoeve, December 1967, 9ff., typescript, with introduction in Dutch (= L.Or.8447/26).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/133
Dates:
Dec 1967
Description:

The original manuscript consists of 25 bamboo strips, with two texts, the former consisting of 13 unnumbered strips, and the latter of 12 numbered strips, all incised in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay (= L.Or.6821). The former set contains a number of short songs, not related to the second.

The former begins:

'iy jading ranting kamambang

Ranting kamambang wohin jangan

Lamoju tumbuh di'utan

Capaka ndi' kambing 'ari panas

The second begins:

'iy 'aning pasan, si'aning pasan

Pasan Bangngkulu lagi dolu

Lagi 'ade tagur ku 'ading

'aning pakeling rampa dewa

and is defective at the end.

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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)