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ID: 350285

General information
Shelfmark	Vat.ind.10
Date	XVIII saec.
Country	Indonesia
Region	Java
Place'	probably Batavia
Support	paper, parchment
Height	395
Width	160
Extent	8
Overview	This hybrid almanac is rare to find in any Malay/Javanese manuscripts, combining both Arabic and Javanese scripts. We notice the name of D°. Adriano Relando [Hadrian Reland or Hadrianus Relandus] on f. 2v.

Description
Title	Calendarium Arabicum – Calendarium Javanum (Arabic Calendar – Javanese Calendar)
Incipit	The beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r) is started with Calendarium Arabicum, which is in fact a Malay adoption of Islamic almanac with detailed names of days (Isnen, selasa, arba, khamis, jumʿah, saptu, ahad) and months (Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ al-awwal, Rabīʿal-ākhir, Jumād al-awwal, Jumād al-ākhir, Rajab, Shaʿbān, Ramaḍān, Sawwāl, Dhū-l-qaʿdah, Dhū-l-hijjah.
Explicit	The Javanese calendar in f. 2r is also the ending of the manuscript. It contains

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Shelfmark	Vat.ind.10