'Surat bujang kasiyan': ?A love letter, inscribed on a tobacco holder. Pencil copy by Jaspan of a text in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay, 5ff., foolscap, containing 32 lines of text.
- Reference No:
- U DJA/2/148
- Dates:
- late 20th cent.
- Description:
- Described by Jaspan as: 'A Pasemah (Kisam) tobacco holder, with delicately engraved scroll borders. The artefact was in the possession of H.O. Forbes and was presented to the Museum by him in December 1883. Height 15 cm. (= BM, Museum of Mankind, + 1934. Originally A.W.T. XII 83).' See M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain', OUP, London 1977, p.131, who say: "The text is probably a love song. It begins with the word aduh (= alas!), and contains the words bujang malang (= unhappy youth) and ati rindu (= lovesick heart).
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)
