Hikayat Iblis
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title:

Hikayat Iblis

manuscript:

MS Cop. Schoemann V. 44, Prussische Staatsbibliotheek, Berlin.

dates:

text:  unknown;    manuscript:  1846.

provenance:

text:  unknown;    manuscript:  Javanese;  on the cover-leaf of the manuscript “Adapun hikayat ini Agus Ahmad yang empunya.”

words:

2562 words.

references:

to the pages (1-19) and lines of the manuscript.

 

This text was kindly provided by Raimy Che’ Ross

 
 
Editorial notes
The manuscript bears two dates: on the cover-leaf 1261 [January-December 1845], and in the colophon 4 Maulud 1262 [= 2 March 1846].
This text is accompanied in the manuscript by four others in the same genre, namely:  Hikayat Puteri Salamah, Hikayat Bulan Dibelah Dua, Takbir Mimpi, and Surat Tamsil.
Raimy Che-Ross comments: “The Jawi in this manuscript is generally clear but rather coarse and contains a few spelling errors.”
The full text of Hikayat Iblis was earlier posted on the web by Raimy Che-Ross, and is now presented by Mohamed Yosri Mohamed Yong at http://sumarno.wordpress.com/category/hikayat/.  This text may differ in some details from the text edited for the MCP.
 
Preparation 
Added:  1998
A transcription of the manuscript was prepared in by Raimy Che-Ross from the microfilm copy held in the Malay Manuscripts Centre of the National Library of Malaysia (microfilm no. 376). This was modified slightly for the MCP.
 Reliability:
Some readings of the manuscript remain obscure.