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Bugis Diary from Bone, Sulawesi, 1780-5

British Library, Add MS 12349

The British Library notes:

Contents

“A: ff. 2v. et seqq. Buginese diary, A.D. I780-5 (A.H. 1194-9). The keeper of the diary seems to have had close relations with the court of Bone. Various activities are mentioned. B: ff. 38v.-44r. An astronomical, meteorological, and agricultural calendar. G: ff. 63v.-45r. A number of religious treatises, with various teachings in Arabic with Buginese translations. Including: a treatise beginning with a eulogy (f. 63v.); the end of a kitta’ (Arabic kitāb) written by a Sharif, the son of Sharif Abu Bakr (f. 56r.); the beginning of another kitta’ dealing with dogmatics and containing a few notes on the salāt; a kitta’ dealing with the reward for the performance of the sĕmpajĕng barajama’ (the ṣalāt performed together) (f. 49v.); a fragment dealing with dogmatics written by ‘Abd ar-Raḥrnān Mangkasa’ (‘the Makasarese’) (f. 49r.); a tract dealing with dogmatics written by Saharia (ff. 47r.45v.).”

Ownership

Purchased from John Crawfurd, 1842.

Bibliography

M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 27.
B.F. Matthes, Kort verslag aangaande alle mij in Europa bekende Makassaarsche en Boegineesche handschriften, vooral die van het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap te Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1875

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