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[RAS Maxwell Malay 106] Kitab perentah Pawang


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Kitab perentah Pawang. RAS Malay 106.
See Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (2014), pp. 149-150.
Containing a cosmogony (see Winstedt, 1950) and mantra used in the ritual of the rice-fields, etc. Written upon the order of Raja (later Sultan) Idris of Perak. Written at Belanja, Perak, and dated at the end (with unclear Western numerals) AH 1296 [?] [AD 1878]. 144 p. Europan paper, ‘FNF’ (with the first letter reversed). 24 x 16 cm. Provenance uncertain; not part of the Maxwell bequest. See Voorhoeve 1963, p. 74. A partial transcription is in Malay 106A.