Syair Tengku Perbu

bibliography

text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

Bibliography

title:		Syair Tengku Perbu
manuscript:		Mal.-Pol. 96, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris.
dates:		text:  Singapore;    manuscript:  Malacca.
provenance:		text:  1835;    manuscript:  1835.
words:		3614 words, comprising 684 verses.
references:		to the stanzas (1-171) of the manuscript text; the lines of the prose section after stanza 51 are numbered  51*a - 51*w.

 

Editorial notes

Variations between the manuscript and Muhammad Haji Salleh's transcription have been noted.

 Bibliography:

Muhammad Haji Salleh (ed.), Syair tantangan Singapura abad kesembilan belas, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1994.

 

Preparation

Added:  1998

The text was transcribed by Ian Proudfoot in Paris in 1982, and later checked and corrected against the printed edition of Muhammad Haji Salleh.