British libraries and museums hold some of the oldest and most important manuscripts in Indonesian languages in the world. Although small by comparison with manuscript 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.

 

Since 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 1,200 manuscripts were listed with information on names of authors, scribes, owners and collectors, dates and places of writing, watermarks and paper. This 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.

 

This 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.

British libraries and museums hold some of the oldest and most important manuscripts in Indonesian languages in the world. Although small by comparison with manuscript 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.

 

Since 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 1,200 manuscripts were listed with information on names of authors, scribes, owners and collectors, dates and places of writing, watermarks and paper. This 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.

 

This 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.