MALAY MANUSCRIPTS. 



in the libraries of London, Brussels and The Hague, 



By E. 0. WlNSTEDT. 



" Miscellaneous Papers relating to Indo-China," Second 

 Series, Vol. II, pp. 1-56 contain a " Short account of the Malay 

 Manuscripts belonging to the Eoyal Asiatic Society " by H. 1ST. van 

 cler Tuuk. In the " Journal of the Eoyal Asiatic Society " 1899 

 Mr. C. 0. Blagclen printed a list of Malay MiSS. subsequently be- 

 queathed to that Society by Sir William Maxwell. We have 

 Greentree and Nicholson's " Catalogue of the Malay MSS. in the 

 Bodleian Library" (Oxford, 1910): — to which Library I have 

 since presented a MS. of the lit. Shamsliul-'bahrain and one of the 

 Ht. Raja Budak. Dr. Ph. S. van Eonkel has given us in English 

 an " Account of Six Malay Manuscripts of the Cambridge Univer- 

 sity Library." (Bij. T. L. en Vic. N. I. 6°, II, pp. 1-53). Ap- 

 pendix VII to Wilkinson's " Malay-English Dictionary " records 

 a list of Malay MSS. presented by him to the same library. To 

 complete these lists of Malay MSiS. in English libraries, I translate 

 below van der Tuuk's short account of Malay MSS. in the Library 

 of the India Office and G. K. Niemann's paper on those in the 

 British Museum. Fuller or up-to-date catalogues of the Maxwell 

 collection, the Wilkinson collection and of the collections in the 

 Indian Office Library and in the British Museum are badly needed. 

 In a later number I hope to catalogue the few Malay MSS. in 

 Baffles Library, Singapore, to which I here give reference num- 

 bers. 



Juynboll's " Catalogus van de Maleische en Sundaneesche 

 Handschriften der Leidsche Universiteits-Bibliotheek " (Leiden 

 1899) and Professor van Eonkel's "Catalogus der Maleische 

 Handschriften in het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap 

 van Kunsten en Wetenschappen " ( 7 s Hage 1909) — these great 

 works worthily carry on the tradition of van der Tuuk and should 

 be in the hand of every serious student of Malay literature. To 

 English students it is not so well known perhaps that Professor van 

 Eonkel has also published catalogues of the Malay M'SIS. in the 

 Bibliotheque E ovale at Brussels and of those in the library of the 

 Koninklijk Instituut. From these two last works I give a bare 

 list of MSS. 



There are other Malay MSS. in the Lniversiteits-bibliotheek 

 of Amsterdam, in the possession of the Xederlandsch Bijbelgenoots- 

 cha-p and in the Schomann collection at Berlin, which have not 

 yet, so far as I know, been catalogued ; and for those in the National 

 Library at Paris we have at present only Professor C aba ton's 

 46 Catalogue sommaire des MSS. incliens, indochinois et malayo- 

 polynesiens" (Paris 1912). The School of Oriental Studies, Lon- 

 don, also possesses a few Malay MSS. 



R. A. Soc, No. 82. 1920. 



