'Carita Demak'= The story of Demak, the religious centre in Java. Romanized transliteration by P. Voorhoeve, January 1970, from a copy made by Jumsari Jusuf, 2ff., typescript (= L.Or.8447/145).

Reference No:
U DJA/2/53
Dates:
Jan 1970
Description:

The original is a single section of bamboo incised with 28 lines of text in the rencong script in South Sumatran Malay. (MNJ E 50a) The first fourteen lines comprise only the questions from a juarian about Demak: the answers are given in part in lines 20-24. Begins:

In surat tjarita Damak

Takaleni damal (= Demak!) rimba / tanang

'Ape 'uwung midang da'ulu

'Ape manawass (i) di Damak.

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