Hikayat Amir Hamzah
bibliography
text notes
list of words

Bibliography

title:

Hikayat Amir Hamzah

edition:

A. Samad Ahmad (ed.), Hikayat Amir Hamzah, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1987.

manuscript:

DBP MSS 4, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur — "Naskhah A".

dates:

text:  ? ±1500-1550;    manuscript:  unknown.

provenance:

unknown.

words:

245079 words.

references:

to the pages (xxix-xxxi, 1-712) and lines of the 1987 edition.

 
Editorial notes and bibliography
A. Samad Ahmad appears to have edited the text rather freely, partly for personal taste, while also referring to other manuscript and lithograph versions in the Dewan Bahasa library.
References:
  • Liaw Yock Fang, Sejarah Kesusasteraan Klassik, rev. ed., Singapura: Pustaka Nasional, 1982, pp.148-159.
 
Preparation
Added:  August 2004
The 1987 edition was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.