Syair Kumbang dan Melati
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 VII, pp.168-188.
Location references:
to the folios (recto and verso), stanzas and verses of the underlying manuscript as published in Antologi Syair Simbolik.   Folios 1v-36v.
Statistics:
4331 words, comprising 1018 verses
Underlying manuscripts
    folios 1v - 11r
ML 7: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
Date:
of the manuscript:  before 1866.
of the text:  before 1859, the date of a manuscript from Bangkahulu.
Provenance:
of the manuscript:  Palembang
of the text:  Palembang or, according to ML 478, Terengganu
    folios 29v - 36v
W 239(c): Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
Date:
of the manuscript:  collected by van der Wall before 1873.
Provenance:
of the manuscript:  Riau
of the text:  probably Palembang or Riau
 
Editorial notes and bibliography
The texts from these two manuscript sources have been brought together by the editors, who see W 239(c) as a continuation of the text in ML 7.
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): 108-148, at 111, with summary 122-124.
 
Preparation
Added:  September 2005
Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.