Hikayat Siak

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title:		Hikayat Siak
edition:		Muhammad Yusoff Hashim (ed.), Hikayat Siak dirawikan oleh Tengku Said, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1992.
manuscript:		Cod.Or. 7304, Leiden University Library.
dates:		text:  1855;    manuscript:  1893.
provenance:		text:  ? Sikudana, composed or copied by Tengku Sa`id for H. von de Wall; manuscript:  Batavia, copied by Muhammad Nuruddin, ? for Snouck Hurgronje.
words:		48495 words.
references:		to the pages (401-647) of the manuscript, indicated in the printed edition.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

The text goes by various titles:

•  Sejarah Raja-Raja Melayu

•  Cetera Raja Iskandar Zulkarnain

•  Hikayat Raja Akil

The manuscript Cod.Or. 7304 was once owned by Snouck Hurgronje.  It is a copy of a manuscript owned by von de Wall.   The source from which it was copied is v.d.W. 191, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.  

The edition by Muhammad Yusoff Hashim gives explanations of aberrant spellings and many variant readings found in two other manuscripts.  It is careful to preserve the inconsistencies of the manuscript text.

Reference:

Timothy P. Barnard, Multiple Centres of Authority: Society and Environment in Siak and Eastern Sumatra, 1674-1827, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 210.

 

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