Hikayat Siak
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list of words

Bibliography

The MCP text
Based on:
Hikayat Siak dirawikan oleh Tengku Said, ed. Muhammad Yusoff Hashim, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1992.
Location references:
to the pages (401-647) of the underlying manuscript, as indicated in the printed edition.
Statistics:
48501 words
Underlying manuscript
Ml. 44, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (Van de Wall 191).
Date:
of the manuscript:  1893
of the text:  1855
Provenance:
of the manuscript:  Batavia
of the text:  Sikudana
 
Editorial notes and bibliography
The edition by Muhammad Yusoff Hashim gives explanations of aberrant spellings and many variant readings found in two other manuscripts.  It is careful to preserve the inconsistencies of the manuscript text.
References:
  • Timothy P. Barnard, Multiple Centres of Authority: Society and Environment in Siak and Eastern Sumatra, 1674-1827, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 210.
 
Preparation
Added:  March 2005
The published text was prepared in Canberra for the MCP using Recognita™ OCR.