Art. IV.—Brief Account of a Javanese Manuscript, in the possession of the Society, and entitled “Babad Mangku Nagárá”

Extract

The subject of this manuscript is the War of the celebrated prince Mangku Nagárá against the Dutch and their allies, which began in the latter half of the 17th century. The language is the modern Javanese, with here and there a word or two in Kavi, the ancient poetical idiom of Java, and in one passage wholly in Kavi. The composition is metrical; the metre is that which is usually employed in works of this nature, and the style is somewhat monotonous. The MS. is dated in the Javanese year 1724 (A.D. 1798), and the owner, and perhaps author of the work, is stated at the end to be Rader Fumenggung Suma diningrat.