Syair Sultan Maulana

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text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

Bibliography

title:		Syair Sultan Maulana
edition:		C. Skinner (ed.), The Battle for Junk Ceylon: The Syair Sultan Maulana, text, translation and notes,  Dordrecht: Foris, for the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1985.  Bibliotheca Indonesica.
manuscript:		Add. 12394, Oriental manuscipts, British Library.
dates:		text:  ±1815;    manuscript:  1825.
provenance:		text:  Kedah; manuscript:  Kedah, written by a scribe at the court of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin.
words:		18930 words, comprising 4408 verses.
references:		to the stanzas (1-1102) as numbered in Skinner’s edition.

 

Editorial notes

Skinner's text is a diplomatic edition.  Certain distinctions made by Skinner have been removed from the MCP text.  For instance, é and e become e ; masing masing and masing2 become masing-masing.

 Bibliography:

See also Muhammad Yusoff Hashim, Syair Sultan Maulana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1980.

Preparation

Added:  1998

Scanned and edited for the MCP in Canberra.