Syair Kumbang Mengindera

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text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

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title:		Syair Kumbang Mengindera
manuscript:		Kl. 190, University of Leiden Library.
date:		text & manuscript:  before 1859.
provenance:		text:  Riau,  composed by Sapiah, a daughter of Raja Ali;    manuscript:  Riau, collected by H.C. Klinkert.
words:		3913 words, comprising 926 verses.
references:		to the stanzas (numbered 1-233) and verses (abcd) of the manuscript text; [t]  signifies title, standing above the verse text.

 

This text was kindly provided by Jan van der Putten

 

Reference

Ph.S. van Ronkel, Supplement-Catalogus der Maleische en Minangkabausche Handschriften in de Leidsche Universiteits-Biblioteek, Leiden: Brill, 1921: no.216 (pp.93-94).

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Added:  1998

Typed transcription provided by Jan van der Putten, and lightly edited for this project.