Syair Sultan Maulana
bibliography
text notes
list of words
list of rhyme words

Bibliography

The MCP text
  Based on:
C. Skinner (ed.), The Battle for Junk Ceylon: The Syair Sultan Maulana, text, translation and notes,  Dordrecht: Foris, for the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1985.  Bibliotheca Indonesica.
 Location references:
to the stanzas (1-1102) as numbered in Skinner's edition.
 Statistics:
18950 words, comprising 4408 verses

Underlying text
British Library, Oriental manuscipts, Add. 12394.
  Date:
of the text:   about 1815
of the manuscript:  1825
 Provenance:
Kedah, written by a scribe at the court of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin.

Editorial notes
Skinner's text is a diplomatic edition.  Certain distinctions made by Skinner have been removed from the MCP text.  For instance, é and e become e ; masing masing and masing2 become masing-masing.
 Bibliography:
See also Muhammad Yusoff Hashim, Syair Sultan Maulana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1980.

Preparation
Added:  1998
Scanned and edited for the MCP in Canberra.