Ohio University, folio-east-09
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS30476
- Shelfmark:
- folio-east-09
- Title:
- Foliophiles Eastern leaf 09: Javanese manuscript, Indonesia, 19th century
- Place:
- Indonesia;
- Date:
- n.d.
- Language:
- Javanese
- Material:
- Paper (fiber product)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf; Paper (fiber product); 20.6 cm x 33.0 cm
- Note:
- Decoration: Calligraphy (Visual Works); Rubrics; Rules (layout features)
Provenance: This leaf is from a portfolio compiled by The Foliophiles Inc. in 1928 and issued as a limited edition under the title "Specimens of Oriental Mss and Printing."
Provenance: The set of leaves belonging to Ohio University is number 13 of 120.
Provenance: The transcribed labels accompanying these leaves were originally written by The Foliophiles, Inc., a now-defunct New York association of rare book dealers that was also known as the Society of Foliophiles.
Provenance: Between 1925 and 1968 The Foliophiles disbound hundreds of historical texts and assembled them into several thematic portfolio sets.
Provenance: These were then issued in “editions” of between 15 and 200 leaves. Universities across America subsequently purchased these portfolios as teaching tools.
Provenance: While a small number of the selected leaves come from other cultures, the vast majority are from European texts. The collecting and marketing practices of The Foliophiles reflect the values of the members of the association and the contemporary American rare book market.
Provenance: Original descriptions, therefore, may contain outdated language, speculation, or inaccurate information.
The following text is based on the original seller's label. FROM A JAVANESE MANUSCRIPT of the Nineteenth Century—the History of Rama, rendered into modern Javanese from Kavi, the old literature of the island, which consisted largely of Hindu mythology, modified and localized by patriotic scribes
The Javanese language is commonly understood to mean that spoken in the central, populous part of the island
While it ranks as one of the most cultivated of the Malay Polynesian tongues, philologists have difficulty in tracing its origin, partly owing to the scarcity of its early literature, and partly to the intermixture of other languages: Sanskrit on the one hand, and on the other, Malay, Arabic and Sundanese
Modern Javanese, famous for the neatness of its script, is written beneath the ruled lines, not above them, and, as will be seen, bears a striking similarity to western script turned upside-down
While the Javanese are skilled in the manufacture of a coarse but beautiful paper from the bark of the paper-mulberry tree, this has long been superseded for bookmaking and literary purposes by European paper
Our example is written on imported Dutch paper, and were it not for the quaint rubrications, might easily pass as a European document.
Specimens of Eastern Manuscripts and Printing - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/4938
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:4938/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
