Hikayat Amir Hamzah

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text notes

list of words

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title:		Hikayat Amir Hamzah
edition:		A. Samad Ahmad (ed.), Hikayat Amir Hamzah, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1987.
manuscript:		DBP MSS 4, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur — "Naskhah A".
dates:		text:  ? 1380s   (Samad Ahmad: ±1500-1550);    manuscript:  unknown.
provenance:		text:  Pasai, northern Sumatra;    manuscript:  unknown.
words:		245079 words.
references:		to the pages (xxix-xxxi, 1-712) and lines of the 1987 edition.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

A. Samad Ahmad appears to have edited the text rather freely, partly for personal taste, while also referring to other manuscript and lithograph versions in the Dewan Bahasa library.

References:

Braginsky, V., The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature: A historical survey of genres, writings and literary views, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004 (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 214), pp.178-180.

Liaw Yock Fang, Sejarah Kesusasteraan Klassik, rev. ed., Singapura: Pustaka Nasional, 1982, pp.148-159.

 

Preparation

Added:  August 2004

The 1987 edition was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.