'Notes on divination and magic'. Romanized transliteration headed: 'MS Sjafiuddin, Centre for South-East Asian Studies, Hull'. Transliteration by Mrs. Voorhoeve, Barchem, 1980. 4ff., typescript.

Reference No:
U DJA/2/3
Dates:
1980
Description:

The original manuscript is described in Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain: addenda et corrigenda', BSOAS, 45 pt.2, 1982, p.311, as follows:

Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull (Ms. without number). Notes on divination and magic in ka-ga-nga (rencong script), with some divination tables. Donated c.1975/6 by Drs. Sjafiuddin Ali Rahman, who had it from his great - grandfather, the dukun besar Rukim in Retes Mesigit, Marga Air Padang Lais (this according to a note on a slip of paper). 24ff., 12 x 7 cm, in a note book with a red cover. Pencil writing, except ff.6-8, which are blank. (See also L.Or.8447/166).

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