Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
bibliography
text notes
list of words
index of sections and pages

Bibliography

The MCP text
Based on:
The Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah, a medieval Muslim-Malay romance, ed. L.F. Brakel, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.  Bibliotheca Indonesica of KITLV, 12.
Location references:
to the sections and numbered lines of the Brakel's edition.  The sections numbered consecutively
  • Part I   from 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3 to 26;
  • Part II   from 1 to 22.
Refer to the index of sections and pages of Brakel's edition.
Statistics:
57226 words
Text
Date:
about 1450
Provenance:
Aceh or north Sumatran coast area
Underlying manuscripts
"A": Cambridge University Library Ll.6.5.
containing fragments of the whole text
Date:
about 1580, definitely before 1624
Provenance:
probably obtained by Peter Floris in Aceh about 1604  from the Erpenius collection, acquired by Cambridge 1632.
 
"B": Cambridge University Library Ll.6.5.
a complete text
Date:
before 1682
Provenance:
acquired by William Mainstone in 1682, in Bantam, Java.
 
Editorial notes and bibliography:
The text is a synthetic edition made by Brakel on the basis of 8 manuscripts, but principally based on "A" and "B" described above.
References:
  • item 1
  • item 2
 
Preparation
Added:  June 2002
Scanned and adapted to the MCP format in Canberra.
Brakel's scientific transcription has been normalised.  Specifically, his "x" has been rendered "kh" and his accented "g" as "gh".  Brakel's representation of the diphthong "ay" (bagay, pakay etc.) has been changed to the standard "ai", with the loss of the distinction he was rightly making.   His idiosyncratic method of marking reported direct speech has been corrected as far as possible.