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Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain: A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Indonesian Languages in British Public Collections

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British libraries and museums hold some of the oldest and most important manuscripts in Indonesia languages in the world. Although small by comparison with manuscripts holdings in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Netherlands, British collections are especially notable for their antiquity and, in some cases, contain unique copies of important texts. This catalogue includes all manuscripts in the indigenous languages of Indonesia (except Papua), Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as Cham and Malagasy, found in British public collections.rnrnSince publication in 1977, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain" by M. C. Ricklefs & P. Voorhoeve has become an essential reference tool for scholars of Indonesia and the Malay world. Over 1200 manuscripts were listed with information on names of authors, scribes, owners and collectors, dates and places of writing, watermarks and paper. The New Edition presents facsimiles of the original 1977 catalogue and the "Addenda et corrigenda" of 1982 listing a further 92 manuscripts, together with a new supplement of 2014 describing 155 manuscripts not included in the previous editions.rnrnThis book is of value not only to scholars of the languages and literatures of maritime Southeast Asia, but also for studies of the political, economic, social and diplomatic history of the region, the transmission of Islamic thought and the art of the book. Particularly important are the collections of manuscripts in Malay, Javanese, Batak, Buginese and Makasarese.

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Series Title

Naskah dan Dokumentasi Nusantara Seri XXXIII

Call Number

025.341 Ric i

Publisher

Jakarta : Yayasan Obor Indonesia., 2014

Collation

xxix + 396 hlm.; ill.; 15 x 23,3 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-461-883-7

Classification

025.341

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Edition

New Edition with Addenda et Corrigenda

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Catalogue
Reference
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Statement of Responsibility

M. C. Ricklefs, P. Voorhoeve & Annabel Teh Gallop

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