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title:
Syair Kumbang dan Melati
edition:
Jumsari Jusuf, Tuti Munawar, Retnadi Geria & Amin Fukri Hoesin (eds.), Antologi Syair Simbolik dalam Sastra Indonesia Lama, Jakarta: Proyek Pembangunan Media Kebudayaan, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Republik Indonesia, 1978, part VII, pp.168-188.
manuscripts:
1v-11r: Ml 7, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
29v-36v: W 239(c), Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
dates:
text: before 1859, the date of a manuscript from Bangkahulu;
manuscripts: 1v-11r: before 1866; 29v-36v: before 1873.provenance:
text: Palembang; manuscripts: 1v-11r: Palembang or, according to Ml 478, Terengganu; 29v-36v: Riau, collected by van der Wall.
words:
4330 words, comprising 1018 verses. references:
to the folios, recto and verso (1v-11r, 29v-36v), stanzas and verses of the underlying manuscripts.
- Editorial notes and bibliography
- The texts from these two manuscript sources have been brought together by the editors, who see W 239(c) as a continuation of the text in Ml 7.
- The editors have indicated the jawi spelling of some unusual or unknown words. These have been noted MCP version. However the editors’ notes are not comprehensive.
- In some instances the text has been regularised in accordance with the editorial notes.
- Reference:
- H. Overbeck, “Malay Animal and Flower Shaers”, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 12.2 (1934): 108-148, at 111, with summary 122-124.
- Preparation
- Added: September 2005
- Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.
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