Ceretera2 karangan Abdullah

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text notes

list of words

    combined list of words in Abdullah texts

Bibliography

title:		Ceretera2 karangan Abdullah
edition:		Amin Sweeney (ed.), Karya Lengkap Abdullah, jilid 2, Puisi dan Ceretera, Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia & École français d'Extrême-Orient, 2006.
printed sources:		KA  Edisi cetak huruf jawi: Ceretera Kapal Asap, Singapura: Mission Press n.d. [1843], pencetak: Alfred North; 86 pages (1-86) in total, of which 1-20 contain Abdullah's own composition. HSA  Edisi cap batu jawi: Bahwa ini Ceretera Dari hal Haji Sabar ‘Ali Yang kena gantung bersama2 dengan Barad Mastan dan Oli Sab dalam negeri Singapura sebab ketiganya telah sepakat membunuh seorang budak ‘Arab yang bernama Aman, Singapura: Bukit Zion, 1851; 34 pages (t, 2-34).
dates:		KA  1843;    HSA  1851.
provenance:		Singapore.
words:		12695 words
references:		to the numbered pages of each piece, as indicated in Sweeney's edition.

 

This text was kindly provided by Amin Sweeney

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

A very full and circumstantial discussion of the texts, their contexts, and the scholarly attention they have attacted, will be found in Amin Sweeney's Karya Lengkap Abdullah, jilid 2.

Other texts and editions:

KA

Chŭrtra Kapal Asap, Singapura: Mission Press, 1843. -- A typeset rumi version of the first part of the jawi text, composed by Abdullah, also printed by Alfred North, Kampung Bras Basah.

“Cerita Kapal Asap Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir. Translated and with an Introduction”, Indonesia Circle, 48-49 (1989): 3-18. -- also reproduces the jawi text.

HSA

“Deri Hal Haji Saburali”, Taman Pungatauan Bagie Kanak Kanak, IV.39 (March 1851): 48-66. -- A rumi version, differing in some particulars.

“Munshi Abdullah's ‘Horrible Murder’: The Ceretera Darihal Haji Sabar Ali”, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land, en Volkenkunde, 139.2-3 (1983): 320-347. -- Sweeney shows that Skinner's transcription is not always reliable.

 

Preparation

Added:  April 2006

The digital text was provided by Amin Sweeney, and adapted to the MCP format.  In case there is any discrepancy with the published text, the latter is to be preferred.