Syair Nyamuk dan Lalat

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text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

Bibliography

title:		Syair Nyamuk dan Lalat
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 IX, pp.197-219.
manuscript:		W 239(b): Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
dates:		text:  perhaps about 1870;    manuscript:  collected by van der Wall before 1873.
provenance:		text:  probably Riau;    manuscript:  Riau.
words:		4898 words, comprising 1146 verses.
references:		to the folios, recto and verso (14v-29v), and stanzas of the manuscript.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

The editors have indicated the jawi spelling of some unusual or unknown words.  These notes have been included in the MCP edition.  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 112 and summary at 135-137.

 

Preparation

Added:  September 2005

Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.