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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0058 00025

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/622780

Country:

Indonesia

City (Province):

Cirebon (Jawa Barat)

Name of collection:

Private Collection of Makrifat Iman

Right to Left?:

Yes

Current Status:

In situ

Subject matter:

Traditional Medicine

Copyist:

Anonymous

Begin Year Date:

1850

End Year Date:

1950

Script:

Jawi; Arabic

Writing support:

Paper

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

Yes

Manuscript paper dimension:

20 cm x 14 cm

Text block dimension:

15.5 cm x 11 cm

Number of pages:

16 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Description of manuscript content:

The text is about herbal medicine, recipes and how to use them. The text deals with illnesses like: untut (elephantiasis), pitam (stroke), saban and sawan (convulstions), and women’s illnesses. The medicines use the following herbal ingredients: halba seeds (Trigonella Sp.), black caraway seeds (Nigela sativa), mustard seeds (Brassica Sp), jeruk nipis (Citrus aurantifolia), pepper (Piper Nigrum), resin (Agathis dammara), sandalwood (Santalum Sp), gandarusa leaves (Justicia gendarussa), tanjung fruit (Mimusops elengi), and aubergine (Solanum melongena), and other basic ingredients such as rice and chicken eggs.

Other notes:

The paper is bad and moldy in some places. The scripts is easily readable. The binding is bad and the papers are prone to become detached. The manuscript is incomplete as pages at the start and end are missing. The continuation of the text is found in DS0058 00041 which has the same title.

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Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

[Kitab Obat Melayu (1)]

Item 1 - Title in English script:

[The Book of Malay Medicine (1)]

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Malay; Arabic