Balinese transcripts

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4354

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The majority of the texts in the collection originate from Northern Bali. The topics of the texts include tales from Hindu epics, folktales, and legends of Balinese kings. All of these contain moral lessons and religious lessons, and make reference to customary law.

Dates

1972-1983.

Creator

Balinese Manuscript Project (Organization)
Rijksuniversiteit te leiden. Bibliotheek (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The collection comprises over three thousand typed transcriptions of Balinese palm leaf manuscripts, representing a portion of the materials housed in the Kirtya (formerly Van der Tuuk) archives in Bali. The transcriptions were produced between 1972 and 1983 under the auspices of the "Balinese Manuscript Project." That project was supervised by Christiaan Hooykaas and later by H.I.R. Hinzler.

Extent

36 cubic feet. (36 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

The majority of the texts in the collection originate from northern Bali. The topics of the texts include tales from Hindu epics, folktales, and legends of Balinese kings. All of these contain moral lessons and religious lessons, and make reference to customary law.

RELATED MATERIALS

Cornell's holdings may number up to 3676 items, if the Echols Collection actually received all of the transcriptions that should have been sent. An "item" refers to a discrete text ranging in length from one to over one hundred pages. Items are consecutively numbered. Information concerning the transcriptions' titles and number of pages appears on eighty shipping lists.

NOTES

Related although not identical materials from the Van der Tuuk collection are now housed in the Royal University Library and described in: Hinzler, H.I.R. Catalogue of Balinese Manuscripts. Two Volumes (Codices Manuscripti Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis XXII & XXIII). Leiden: E.J. Brill.