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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0045 00306

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/833740

Country:

Indonesia

City (Province):

Makassar (Sulawesi Selatan)

Name of collection:

Private Collection of Go Lan Ing

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Secular Literary Work, Book

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

27 – 7 – 2481

Copying date in Gregorian:

1930 September 19

Script:

Lontarak; Hanzi

Writing support:

Paper

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

Yes

Manuscript cover dimension:

23 x 12.5 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

23 x 12.5 cm

Text block dimension:

18.5 x 8.5 cm

Number of pages:

84 pages

Number of blank pages:

2 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

This manuscript is the first of 45 volumes. The manuscript, titled “Tek Ceng-Ngo Ho Peng Se,” is folk tale that tells a story set in China around the year 1048.

Colophon:

27 – 7 – 2481 19 – 9 – 1930 Niyak Sambungna

Other notes:

- The writing is dominated by the Lontarak Makassarese script, with some characters modified by Liem Kheng Yong, and features a combination with Hanzi. - Initially, this manuscript was rented out to the Peranakan Chinese community. - It is adapted from a Chinese folk legend. - There is a red stamp of the author that reads: “LIEM KHENG YONG-MAKASSAR.” - Some pages are torn, causing parts of the text to be missing on folios 1r–12v. - The pages in the text are out of order. The sequence of pages in the text is: … 61 – 62 – 65 – 66 – 63 – 64 – 69 – 70 – 67 – 68 – 71 – 72, and so on.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ᨈᨙᨌᨙ ᨂᨚᨖᨚᨄᨙᨔᨙ - ᨔᨙᨑᨙᨊ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Tek Ceng – Ngo Ho Peng Se – Sekrena

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Tek Ceng – Ngo Ho Peng Se - 1

Item 1 - Author:

Liem Kheng Yong

Item 1 - Language:

Makassar; Chinese