Undang-Undang Melaka

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Bibliography

title:		Undang-Undang Melaka
edition:		Liaw Yock Fang (ed.), Undang-Undang Melaka. The Laws of Malacca,  The Hague: Nijhoff, 1976. Bibliotheca Indonesica no.13.  Koninklijik Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
manuscripts:		[various].
dates:		texts:  1400s - 1700s, as below;    manuscripts:  all copies from 1800s.
provenance:		texts:  Melaka & Johor;    manuscripts:  widely distributed, from Riau, Singapore, [Jambi], Melaka, Naning, Perak, Kedah, [Aceh], Patani, Batavia, Demak, and Semarang.
words:		14628 words.
references:		to the sections of the text (listed below) and the lines of the printed edition (1-2103).

 

Components of the text

 

	tag	lines	text	date	provenance
	UU.M	1 - 1010	Undang-Undang Melaka	? 1400s	Melaka
	UU.L	1011 - 1156	Undang-Undang Laut	? 1400s	Melaka
	UU.K	1157 - 1322	Hukum orang berwali ...  [Hukum kahwin]	? 1500s	unknown
	UU.B	1323 - 1845	Hukum orang berniaga, peri menuntut ...	? 1500s	unknown
	UU.N	1846 - 1938	Undang-Undang Negeri	? 1500s	? Melaka
	UU.J	1939 - 2103	Undang-Undang Johor	? 1700s	Johor

 

Editorial notes

Liaw Yock Fang's text is a synthetic edition based on critical readings of five principal manuscripts, and reference to others.  There is therefore no single manuscipt of the text which can be dated.  The principles of the edition are set out in Chapter V of Liaw's edition.  Liaw gives many further references to the scholarly literature.
The markings used by Liaw to indicate additions and omissions have been standardised; emendations added by Liaw are marked « » (in Liaw’s text < >).

Reference:

Liaw Yock Fang, "Naskah Undang-Undang Melaka: Suatu Tinjauan", Sari 25 (2007): 85-94, available online

 

Preparation 

Added:  1999 - April 2000

The 1976 edition was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.

  

 

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