The date of the Soas manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar

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ID2776861
AuthorsRussell Jones (0000-0003-3180-5891, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume38
Issue2
Pages418-420
Publication date1975-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x0014251x
OpenAlexW2064933726
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This poem by a Macassar Malay describes the successful war of the Dutch against Macassar from 1666 to 1669. It was edited by Dr. C. Skinner for a London Ph.D. and published in 1963. The manuscript of the original poem is no longer available, but it is deduced that it must have been written between July 1669 and June 1670. The name of the author is recorded, an Enci' Amin; we learn from a comment in the poem itself that it was recorded on Chinese paper. It is unusual to know even this much about the original manuscripts of works in traditional Malay literature. Of the two extant manuscripts the earlier, preserved in Leiden, contains only part of the. poem. Although the name of the copyist is not given Dr. Skinner, continuing a fascinating piece of investigation by the Dutch scholar H. T. Damstè, is able to demonstrate with reasonable certainty that it was a Dutch lady, Cornelia Valentijn, wife of the famous Franςis; furthermore, that it would have been copied c. 1710 in Ambon

Art · Certainty · Extant taxon · Linguistics · Literature · Malay · Poetry · Theology · Wife · Asian Studies and History · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies · Philosophy

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