The Royal Library of Bone: Bugis and Makassar Manuscripts in the British Library

By The British Library Asian and African Studies Blog

(Excerpt) “In March 2019, the digitisation was completed of 75 Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta now held in the British Library, which had been captured from the Kraton or Palace of Yogyakarta in June 1812 following a British assault.

What is much less widely known is that the British Library also holds the core of another royal library from Indonesia, also taken in armed conflict during the brief period of British administration in Java from 1811 to 1816 under the command of Thomas Stamford Raffles. All  the 34 manuscripts from south Sulawesi in the British Library can be identified as originating from the palace of the Bugis kingdom of Bone, and were seized in a British attack in June 1814…” (Read more.)

Source: The Royal Library of Bone: Bugis and Makassar manuscripts in the British Library