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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0002 00003

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537664

Country:

Indonesia

City (Province):

Ogan Komering Ilir (Sumatera Selatan)

Name of collection:

Private collection of Mukhtar

Right to Left?:

Yes

Current Status:

In situ

Subject matter:

Astronomy

Begin Year Date:

1902

End Year Date:

1903

Script:

Jawi

Writing support:

Exercise book

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

Yes

Manuscript paper dimension:

27 x 21 cm

Text block dimension:

21 x 16 cm

Number of pages:

36 pages

Number of blank pages:

18 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Other notes:

The manuscript contains many tables. The Arabic script does not use diacritics.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

بديعة المثال لمعرفة الهلال

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Badī‘at al-mithāl li ma‘rifat al-hilāl

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Great Patterns on Seeing a Crescent

Item 1 - Author:

Muḥammad Ma‘shūm ibn ‘Alī al-Jombangi

Item 1 - Language:

Malay