'An Arabic text + Hiwang + Bandung'. Transliteration by P. Voorhoeve, February 1971, 3ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/93).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/156
Dates:
Feb 1971
Description:

The originals are as follows:

a) Corrupt Arabic text in the rencong script, incised on 12 bamboo strips. (Mal.pol.189)

b) Hiwang = A lover's lament, in the Lampung script in the Lampung language. (Mal.pol.193). This is a paper scroll, 155.5 x 9.5 cm.

c) Bandung: a collection of pantuns, in the Lampung script, in the Lampung language. (Mal.pol.200). This is a bamboo strip, 111.5 x 3 cm, with text in three columns, beginning:

Ku sabah pai huri djah

Huri djah dami rukun

Lamun benar mak salah

Mak salah ki sai hujun.

See A. Cabaton, 'Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits indiens, indochinois et malayo - polynesiens', Paris, 1912. See further DJA(2)/9/3/5, with ref. to Ms.Mal.pol.18. There is also a microfilm containing the manuscripts of DJA/2/156.

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