Bab Takzir

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title:		Bab Takzir
edition:		Mohamad Jajuli A. Rahman, The Malay Law Text, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1995.
manuscript:		MS Add.2393, in the Sloane collection, British Library.
date:		text:  ? 1600s; manuscript:  before 1753, when it was purchased by the British Museum.
provenance:		text:  unknown, perhaps Javanese; manuscript:  unknown, privately owned by Sloane.
words:		3664 words.
references:		to the pages (1-32) of the manuscript.

 

 
Editorial notes

The text is untitled.  The first section is, however, titled "Bab Takzir", hence the name applied here to the whole text.

Jajuli gives a substantial introduction to his text, discussing its antique spelling, its contents, and its likely Arabic sources.  The sense of the text is often obscure, presumably as a result of its adaptation from Arabic.

 Bibliography:

Jajuli's edition has also been published as:

•  Teks Undang-Undang Melayu Pertengahan Abad Kelapan Belas  (tr. Che Ann Ghani), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1994.

•  The Undang-Undang: A mid-eighteenth century Malay law text, Canterbury: Unversity of Kent, 1986.  Occasional Paper No.6 of the Centre of South-East Asian Studies.

 
Preparation 

Added:  April 2001

The Dewan Bahasa 1995 edition was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR.