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- 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 VIII, pp.189-196.
- Location references:
- to the folios (recto and verso, 75v-81r), stanzas and verses of the underlying manuscript as published in Antologi Syair Simbolik.
- Statistics:
- 1451 words, comprising 346 verses
- Underlying manuscript
- ML 255(b): Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
- Date:
- of the manuscript and text: perhaps 1870s. The first Singapore lithograph dates to 1880.
- Provenance:
- of the manuscript and probably text: Batavia
- Editorial notes and bibliography
- The 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): 108-148, at 113, with summary at 145-1146.
- Preparation
- Added: September 2005
- Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.
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