Year
2019
Publisher
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Language
English
Pages
74
ISBN
978-9-67994-874-5
Last Update
05-Oct-2025
Keywords
History ; Asian Studies ; Military Studies ; security-studies-discipline
The Javanese babad transliterated and translated here under the title, ‘An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30)’ is contained in Codex Orientalis 2114 of the Leiden University Library collection of oriental manuscripts. This manuscript, which formed part of the private collection of Professor Taco Roorda (1801-1874), was bought from his heirs by the library in 1874 along with various other Javanese manuscripts mainly of Surakarta origin.⁵ It has a pencil note on the first page written in Roorda’s own handwriting describing it as the ‘Babad Dhiponogoro’ with his signature below it. On the next page, by way...
