Hikayat Sang Boma

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text notes

list of words

Bibliography

title:		Hikayat Sang Boma
edition:		Sang Boma, tjetakan ketiga, Djakarta: Balai Pustaka, 1959.
manuscript:		Ml 360, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
dates:		text:  ±1600 (according to Braginsky: 15-16 century);    manuscript:  1850.
provenance:		text & manuscript:  unknown.
words:		92113 words.
references:		to the pages (3-327) and lines of the printed edition, thus: Boma 105:16.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

This text was first published in 1924.   In that edition, it is stated that the text is taken from a manuscript in the Batavian Society collection.   Details in the catalogue of that collection made by Van Ronkel allow the inference that the base manusript is Bat.Gen. 360 (now Ml 360), a manuscript purchased from an unspecified source in 1904.  Van Ronkel describes it as ‘very accurate and complete’.

References:

Ph.S. van Ronkel, Catalogus der Maleische handschriften in het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Batavia: Albrecht, 1909. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel 57. Item LXXX, p.93.

Sang Boma, disalin dari naskah toelisan tangan hoeroep Arab, kepoenjaan Bataviaasch Genootschap oleh Balai Poestaka, Weltevreden : Commissie voor de Volkslectuur / Balai Poestaka, 1924. Serie no. 279.

V. Braginsky, 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.152-156.

 

Preparation

Added:  January 2010

The printed edition was scanned in Canberra by the MCP, and its spelling modernised.