[RAS Maxwell Malay 048] Pantun Alif Bata

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1879
Malay
22.5 x 18.5 cm

48 f. A: ff. 1-22v.

A treatise on fowls (for cockfighting?), in 18 chapters. B: ff. 22v.-26v. On casting bullets, shooting, etc. Dated at end AH 1299 [AD 1881], in Taiping (Perak). Maxwell mentioned as owner. Scribe Muhammad Hashim (cf. D below and Maxwell 15). C: ff. 27r.-38r. A genealogical history of the kings of Perak, in 2 chapters. D: ff. 38v.-48r. Hikayat Negeri Johor. Dated at end AH 1299 [AD 1881], in Permatang Larut (Perak). Maxwell mentioned as owner. Scribe Muhammad Hashim. At front signed by W.E. Maxwell, Larut, 1882. Lined English paper: ‘Waterlow & Sons Limited London’. Maxwell bequest, 1898.

See M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (1977), p. 146.

Digitized with the support of the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, 2024-5.