Category:Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang (1803) - BL MSS Jav 24

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English: The story of Jaya Lengkara Wulang. The narrative ends with Jaya Lengkara ascending the throne of Sonya[sic] Wibawa with the title Prabu Surya Dipaningrat. In a kind of epilogue it is stated that the kanda Sukma Ngumbara is the sequel (see MSS Jav 12). Handsomely ornamented with an elaborate frontispiece, ornate polychrome frames setting off the didactic passages, and gold and red filling of the interpunctuation throughout.In Javanese language and script. In verse; 93 cantos. Written in the court of the Sultan [Hamengkubuwana II] of Yogyakarta (Kanjeng Sultan ing Ngayogya) on 22 Rejeb A.J.1730 (7 Nov. 1803).

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The text has 434 pages and consists of no fewer than 92 cantos. It has beautifully ornamented opening pages and also other illuminations that enhance the beauty of the manuscript. Interestingly, in this manuscript, with one exception, these ornaments all coincide with canto changes in the text.

The manuscript has 25 illuminated pages, of which four have been left unfinished (1, 2, 3, 4). On two other pages, space was left empty to allow for illuminations to be added, but these were evidently never made for one reason or another. Thus although the text seems to be complete, the manuscript itself is unfinished. All punctuation marks in the text have red signs above them up to folio 168r (except for f. 57v) after which the addition of these marks is discontinued, and the pepadan are coloured only in yellow or not at all. Also, no gold leaf was applied after this page.

In some cases the symbolism is quite clear, for instance, the lion and the crocodile in the illuminated panel shown below may suggest the names of the kings of Pringgabaya and Singasari, as baya points to a crocodile and singa a lion.

Some idea of the production process of the manuscript can perhaps be deduced from the fact that the text is finished but the illuminations are not.

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/02/javanese-poetics-and-canto-indicators-jaya-lengkara-wulang-mss-jav-24.html

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