Bab Takzir
bibliography
text notes
list of words

Bibliography

title:

Bab Takzir

edition:

Mohamad Jajuli A. Rahman, The Malay Law Text, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1995.

manuscript:

MS Add.2393, in the Sloane collection, British Library.

date:

text:  ? 1600s;
manuscript:  before 1753, when it was purchased by the British Museum.

provenance:

text:  unknown, perhaps Javanese;
manuscript:  unknown, privately owned by Sloane.

words:

3664 words.

references:

to the pages (1-32) of the manuscript.

 
 
Editorial notes
The text is untitled.  The first section is, however, titled "Bab Takzir", hence the name applied here to the whole text.
Jajuli gives a substantial introduction to his text, discussing its antique spelling, its contents, and its likely Arabic sources.  The sense of the text is often obscure, presumably as a result of its adaptation from Arabic.
 Bibliography:
Jajuli's edition has also been published as:
•  Teks Undang-Undang Melayu Pertengahan Abad Kelapan Belas  (tr. Che Ann Ghani), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1994.
•  The Undang-Undang: A mid-eighteenth century Malay law text, Canterbury: Unversity of Kent, 1986.  Occasional Paper No.6 of the Centre of South-East Asian Studies.
 
Preparation 
Added:  April 2001
The Dewan Bahasa 1995 edition was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.