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Babad Dipanagara, A Surakarta Court Poet�s Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30)

Year

2019

Publisher

Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Language

English

Pages

74

ISBN

978-9-67994-874-5

Link

Last Update

18-Oct-2024

Keywords

History ; Asian Studies ; Military Studies ; security-studies-discipline

Description

The Javanese babad transliterated and translated here under the title, ‘An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30)’ is contained in Codex Orientalis 2114 of the Leiden University Library collection of oriental manuscripts. This manuscript, which formed part of the private collection of Professor Taco Roorda (1801-1874), was bought from his heirs by the library in 1874 along with various other Javanese manuscripts mainly of Surakarta origin.⁵ It has a pencil note on the first page written in Roorda’s own handwriting describing it as the ‘Babad Dhiponogoro’ with his signature below it. On the next page, by way...

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