Item Summary

Collection of hymns in Jawi composed by the Baptist missionary William Robinson, who lived in Java from 1813 to 1821.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Malay hymns].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 481L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczg64v0503
Publisher
[between 1813 and 1850]
Language
Malay
Date Created
1813-1850
Format
Manuscript
Extent
76 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 (196 x 120) mm. bound to 216 x 166 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Starr, E. C., ed. A Baptist bibliography (1974), XX, 66
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
MS codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Note on fol. 1b: Original evangelical hymns in Malay composed by the Baptist missionary Robinson, formerly of Batavia; they have been printed several times.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 75 + i ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 12 lines per page in two columns with circle separators ; lightly frame-ruled.
Description: Written in black on unglazed, laid European paper. Pages numbered in Arabic script beginning on fol. 2a. Paper bears two watermarks: one is a medallion of Athena standing, holding a shield with a cross on it; the second is the letter "F" with the date 1813 below it.
Incipit: تهليل فد مپتام فري كتاب الله
Running title: تهليل يغ ك
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in marbled brown leather. Spine has seven transverse gold-tooled lines.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Malay—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/35f6fdde-2a7c-4b45-acb5-f6c4a537d7ef/manifest