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Keywords: Stories of Amir Hamzah, in handwritten Javanese script.jpg en Throughout Asia the stories of the hero Amir Hamzah a noble and brave companion and also the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad have been very popular with people of all ages due to their romantic as well as philosophical content The stories are originally Persian but came to the Malay and Javanese world via India They celebrate the triumph of Islam and trace Hamzah's conquests in love and war often coupled with fantastic elements and sequences The text is actually written poetic stanzas in sections of different poetic metres <br> The beautiful handwritten red symbol marks the beginning of a new stanza in the poetic text The brown colored sheet has writing on both sides using a distinctive brownish-black ink It is made of thin paper While some have suggested a 19th century date for this manuscript Dr Timothy Behrend a professor of Indonesian Studies at the University of Auckland New Zealand and an expert on Javanese literature and manuscripts has more reliably suggested a date of early 20th century for this manuscript based on laylines and chainlines which are the horizontal and vertical watermark lines in the paper used Its size is about 6 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in Each side is ruled with a vertical line in the left column that provided the point for the scribe to begin the lines since the writing is done from the left to the right of each line just as in English 2013-10-05 22 23 19 http //www ebay com/itm/2-Red-Illuminated-Leaves-of-Javanese-Amir-Hamzah-Handwritten-Manuscript-/151098644051 nma true si 2x3f3FMGeGpVhQthFLf1p9hFYos 253D orig_cvip true rt nc _trksid p2047675 l2557 author Custom license marker 2013 10 05 PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Manuscripts in Javanese script Javanese script
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