Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala

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title:		Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala
edition:		C. Skinner (ed. & tr.)  Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala,   The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982. Bibliotheca Indonesica of the KITLV, 22.
manuscript:		Add. 12386, British Library, London.
date:		text & manuscript:  1811.
provenance:		text & manuscript:  Penang, collected by J. Crawfurd.
words:		23236 words, including 28 verses.
references:		to the alternate pages (26..152) and lines of the printed edition.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

Skinner's transcription preserves the manuscript use of angka dua {2} to indicate reduplication.   Thus the form laki2 is found along with laki-laki.

Skinner discriminates between the graphemes {é} as in ékor and {e} as in enam.  The text presented here tries to preserve these differences, but it may not always be successful.

References:

•  C. Skinner, "Transitional Malay Literature, Part I: Ahmad Rijaluddin and Munshi Abdullah", Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 134 (1978): 466-487.

•  Hadijah Rahmat, In Search of Modernity (A Study of the Concepts of Literature, Authorship and Notions of Self in "Traditional" Malay Literature,  Kuala Lumpur: The Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya, 2001, chapter 6.

 

Preparation

Added:  July 2006

The text was scanned in Canberra by the MCP using Recognita™ OCR, and adapted to the MCP.