Syair Buah-Buahan
bibliography
text notes
list of words
list of rhyme words

Bibliography

The MCP text
Based on:
Jumsari Jusuf, Tuti Munawar, Retnadi Geria & Amin Fukri Hoesin (eds.), Antologi Syair Simbolik dalam Sastra Indonesia Lama, Jakarta: Proyek Pembangunan Media Kebudayaan, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Republik Indonesia, 1978, part II, pp.34-86.
Location references:
to the folios (recto and verso, 1r-64r), stanzas and verses of the underlying manuscript as published in Antologi Syair Simbolik.
Statistics:
15952 words, comprising 3799 verses
Underlying manuscript
ML 254: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
Date:
of the manuscript:  1896
of the text:  perhaps about 1870
Provenance:
of the manuscript:  Batavia, apparently written by Muhammad Bakir.
of the text:  Batavia
 
Editorial notes and bibliography
This text contains words in the Jakarta dialect.  The editors have indicated the jawi spelling of some unusual or unknown words.  These notes have been included in the MCP edition.  However the editors' notes are not comprehensive.
In some instances the text has been regularised in accordance with the editorial notes.
References:
  • H. Overbeck, "Malay Animal and Flower Shaers", Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 12.2 (1934): 193-218, summary at 139-145.
 
Preparation
Added:  September 2005
Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.