Syair Perang Wangkang

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text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

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Bibliography

title:		Syair Perang Wangkang
edition:		Putri Minerva Mutiara, Syair Perang Wangkang, Jakarta: Balai Pustaka (Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan), 1979.
manuscript:		Ml 92, Pustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta – Haji Sulaiman, Syair Perang Wangkang.
dates:		text & manuscript:  1871.
provenance:		text & manuscript:  unknown, perhaps Southeast Borneo.
words:		4581 words, comprising 1090 verses.
references:		to the pages of the printed edition (15-50), and the stanzas on each page.

 

This text was kindly provided by Suryadi

 

Editorial notes.

The manuscript was read and annotated by Stuart Cohen, probably at the time of its receipt in Batavia. He identifies some of the place names and persons mentioned. Click here for an image of the most heavily annotated page of the manuscript.

 

Preparation

Added:  May 2008

The text was retyped by Suryadi from Putri Minerva Mutiara's edition, with further notes and corrections.   This version was further checked in Canberra and Leiden against a microfilm of the Jakarta manuscript.