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<p>On f. 129r, (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ASerat_Jaya_Lengkara_Wulang_(1803)_-_BL_MSS_Jav_24.pdf&amp;page=257">p. 257</a>), the text in metre durma ends at the end of the page. On the next page, [this image], the new metre kinanthi is the first word in the illuminated panel. The relation between the illuminations that start cantos is not easy to establish. Often the illuminated elements actually illustrate the start of a new episode in the text, but for outsiders and people not truly versed in Javanese texts and illuminative iconography this is often very hard to understand. In some cases the symbolism is quite clear, for instance, the lion and the crocodile in the illuminated panel shown [here] may suggest the names of the kings of Pringgabaya and Singasari, as <i>baya</i> points to a crocodile and <i>singa</i> a lion.
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</p><p>About Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang
</p><p>The story of Jaya Lengkara Wulang. The 
narrative ends with Jaya Lengkara ascending the throne of Sonya 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). 
</p><p>Dimensions: 325 x 200 mm. 17 lines per page, black ink with red 
diacritics, and illuminated canto and stanza markers. Dutch paper, 
watermarks 'D &amp; C Blauw', 'Pro Patria'. Finely illuminated frames in
colours and gold, with double frames on ff.2v-3r, ff.30v-31r, 
ff.171v-172r (unfinished) and ff.203v-204r (unfinished), and many other 
half-page frames. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards. 
</p><p>Mackenzie Collection (B-56), 1823 
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<ul><li>M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p.61</li>
<li>A.T. Gallop with B. Arps, Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia (London: British Library; Jakarta: Lontar, 1991), pp.92-93.</li>
<li>Donald Weatherbee, ‘An inventory of the Javanese paper manuscripts in the  Mackenzie Collection, India Office Library, London, with a note on some  additional Raffles MSS’, [1973], p.27. Unpublished handlist. British Library, MSS Eur Photo Eur 107</li></ul><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_jav_24_fs001r">https://bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_jav_24_fs001r</a>
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