Syair Burung Pungguk

bibliography

text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

Bibliography

title:		Syair Burung Pungguk
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 V, pp.127-147.
manuscript:		W 241(a): Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
dates:		text:  1865, the date on another Leiden manuscript;    manuscript:  collected by van der Wall before 1873.
provenance:		text:  unknown;    manuscript:  Riau.
words:		2315 words, comprising 535 verses.
references:		to the folios, recto and verso (1v-8v), stanzas and verses 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.

References:

•  Syair Bunga Air Mawar, Singapore: Haji Muhammad Tahir, 1870 — pp.20-46 Syair Pungguk.

•  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 at 117-119.

•  H. Overbeck, "Shaer Burong Punggok", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 67 (1914): 193-218.

 

Preparation

Added:  September 2005

Scanned and edited in Canberra for the MCP format.