Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa
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The MCP text
 Based on:
Siti Hawa Salleh, Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa,  Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 1991.
 Location references:
to the pages (1-115) and lines of the PUM printed edition.
 Statistics:
39241 words
 
Underlying text
The lithographed edition published by R.J. Wilkinson in 1898.
 Date:
of the text:   about 1821
of the printed edition:   1898
 Provenance:
of the text:   Kedah
of the printed edition:  Penang
 
Editorial notes
Maier gives a extended critical discussion of the context in which the Wilkinson edition was produced, and its ideological relationship to other versions of the history of Kedah.
Siti Hawa's introduction is more philologically inclined, giving brief descriptions of published and manuscript versions, and sample parallel texts. The manuscripts so treated are:
  • MS Maxwell 16, Royal Asiatic Society, London
  • MS Maxwell 21, Royal Asiatic Society, London
  • Von de Wall no. 201, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia [missing]
 Bibliography:
Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, published for R.J. Wilkinson, Acting Inspector of Schools, Straits Settlements, Penang: Kim Seck Hean Press, 1898.
H.M.J. Maier, In the Center of Authority. The Malay Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1988.
 
Preparation 
Added:  1999 - April 2000
The PUM text was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.