Containing manuscript notes by M.A. Jaspan on Sumatran manuscripts, manuscripts relating to Sumatra in the UK, artefacts from Sumatra in UK museums, etc. Contents, by pages:

1) Excerpt from P. Voorhoeve, 'Korte mededelingen: Indonesische handschriften in de Universiteits-bibliotheek te Leiden', 'BKI', 108, pt.3, 1952.

2) Notes on British Library manuscript Or.12986: Saribu maksa, on 27 bamboo strips, South Sumatran Malay in Lampung script (DJA/2/140); and on John Rylands Library, Batak manuscript no.26 (Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol.33, no.2, 1951, p.296).

3) Extract from: Benjamin Heyne, 'Tracts, historical and statistical on India .. also an account of Sumatra, in a series of letters', London, 1814, pp.389 foll. See DJA(2)/10/3/7.

4) Note on India Office Library manuscript D.11: Tembai on 31 bamboo strips, South Sumatran Malay in rencong script (DJA/2/149). 5-8) Note on: W. Robinson, 'The Bencoolen Mission Press: an attempt to elucidate the principles of Malay orthography' (Bencoolen Mission Press, 1823).

9-10) Note on: James Howison, 'A Dictionary of the Malay Tongue' (London, 1801)

11) Note on: 'A brief memoir of the life and writings of the late William Marsden' (London, 1838)

12-16) Notes of a visit by M.A. Jaspan to the British Museum Ethnographic Collection (now Museum of Mankind), December 1965 - January 1966: p.12 Ilanun playing cards, no.8171, acquired 1873, and another set, not numbered; p.13 Batak artefacts not yet photographed or studied

p.14 Jambi artefacts; and Hanunoo alphabet; p.15 Tuai (harvesting knife) of the Sultan of Pahang made about A.D. 1919; and a bamboo sliver from Hanunoo, South Mindoro, collected by H.C. Coulilia in 1947; p.16 A Batak wooden reel

17-18) Extracts from: F. Sarre, 'Islamic Bookbindings' (Kegan Paul, London) and Michael Loewe, 'The Wooden and Bamboo Slips from Mo- Chu - Tzo (Kanso)', JRAS, 1-2, 1905.

19-20) Notes on Sumatran objects in the British Museum Ethnographical Collection (continued from p.16).

21-24) Notes on 9 Batak manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Compare M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain' (OUP, 1977), pp.7-8. Also on p.24, a Batak syllabary is set out.

25-26) Notes on Leiden University Library manuscript L.Or.6662, with the observation: 'A collection of L.C. Westenenk Beschreven oudheden: this has important Kerintji and Redjang manuscripts, transcriptions of inscriptions, etc.'. The Kerintji syllabic script is set out at p.25. See TBG 59, 1919, 448-59 and L.Or.8447/20.

27-28) Notes on Chester Beatty, Dublin, Library manuscript A.C. 2397 of 1963: a Lampung manuscript written 28 October 1847. Probably CBL 1171, Si Dayang Rindu, South Sumatran Malay in Lampung script. See BKI 124, 1968, p.383. There is a typed transcript at L.Or.8447/120. Date of note: 10 January 1966. (= DJA/2/21)

29) Extracts from John Crawfurd, 'Journal of an embassy to the courts of Siam and Cochin China' (London, 1828): Pulo Condore, p.196; the Malays of Champa, p.598.

30) Note on the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, bound manuscript volume entitled: Transcripts of Batak manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library.

31) Note on box marked 'Benkoelen' containing Redjang bamboo pieces in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden. Compare DJA/2/74-94.

32-33) M.A. Jaspan, 'Universiteits-bibliotheek, Leiden: Inventory of South Sumatran MSS made by me on 27.1.1966'. Compare DJA/2/95-139.

34-36) Notes about Tony Roberts and Harold Timperley, met in Dublin, January 1966.

37-38) Notes on Batak manuscripts in the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge. Compare Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain', p.11.

39) Notes on G.F. Pijper, 'Het boek der duizend vragen' (Kitab saribu masa'ala) (Brill, Leiden, 1924)

40) Notes on details of several Rejang word lists, from P. Voorhoeve, 'Indonesische handschriften in de Universiteits - bibliotheek te Leiden', BKI 108, pt.3, 1952; and of a bamboo manuscript from South Sumatra in the RC Missie-Museum, Tilburg. Compare DJA/2/7.

41-45) Notes on a visit to the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, including references to a school slate in the form of a turtle (labi-labi); some bibliographical references, and notes on Batak manuscripts. Compare Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 'Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain', pp.22- 3.

46-48) Extracts from catalogues of entries for South-East Asian books: Royal Empire Society (p.46); India Office Library (p.47); SOAS, London Library (p.48). Together with a location list and descriptions of some Ka - ga - nga texts.

There are also a few loose papers at the end of this book.