An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library: Sĕrat Jaya Lĕngkara, Add 12310
One of the crucial problems in philology is deciding whether a manuscript is a new creation or an attempt to create a faithful copy of [Read more…]
Offensive Charms and Weapons in Buton and Cirebon Manuscripts
In 2018, DREAMSEA digitized all 124 manuscripts of the collection of La Ode Zaenu in Bau-bau, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. One manuscript among them that catches the [Read more…]
Illustrations in a Pegon Manuscript from Banyuwangi, East Java
The Serat Damar Wulan discussed here is an old manuscript owned by Bapak Sucipto in Banyuwangi at the tip of East Java. DREASMEA has digitized [Read more…]
Rajah in the Kajeng collection of Balinese manuscripts
In Bali, many palm leaf manuscripts (called lontar) contain texts on medicine, black and white magic and almanac divination, or combinations of any of the [Read more…]
Legacies to Leave Behind in Ogan Komering Ilir
In August 2018, DREAMSEA organized its first field digitization mission of manuscript in Ogan Komering Ilir in South Sumatra. The DREAMSEA team consisted of four-persons, [Read more…]
Traces of Islamic Manuscript Production in Kuningan
Kuningan is a town to the south of the city of Cirebon (at present part of the Province of West Java, Indonesia). In the past Cirebon was [Read more…]
An Islamic Javanese Text from Kuningan, West Java
A manuscript in the collection of Iim Abdurrohim from the Lengkong area in Kuningan, West Java has attracted my attention. This manuscript was digitised in [Read more…]
The Writings of Sultan ‘Aydrūs: King, Sufi and Intellectual from Buton
The names Muḥammad ‘Aydrūs Qā’im al-Dīn ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Buṭūnī, Sultan Muḥammad ʿAydarūs, Sultan Muhammad Idrus Kaimuddin, La Ode Muhammad Idrus Qaimuddin, and La Ode [Read more…]
Shifting Landscapes: Remapping the Writing Traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia through Digitisation
ABSTRACT Studies of the languages and literatures of the Malay world of Nusantara have long been shaped by thecollections of manuscripts held in western institutions, [Read more…]
Book Review: Richard Fox, More than Words. Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali.
Writing and letters in Bali are not just ways to transmit, preserve and disseminate ideas and simple or complex messages and literature. In Bali, writing [Read more…]