'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.
- 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)