Bujangga Manik

Or, Java in the Fifteenth Century

Alexander Joseph West (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-67809-5 (ISBN)

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This simple Sundanese tale of a young man’s spiritual development in 15th-century Java serves as a window onto a hidden world. This new edition covers everything about the text from its sole manuscript to its evocation of everyday life.

Bujangga Manik is a narrative poem in Old Sundanese which opens a window onto the world of late-15th-century maritime Southeast Asia. The poem describes the spiritual development of a young man from Pakañcilan, in what is now West Java, as he walks and sails across and around Java and Bali, culminating with his death in a mountainside hermitage and ascension to heaven. This volume is an exemplary edition of Bujangga Manik, complete with a revised transliteration; a new English translation; detailed descriptions of the manuscript, script, and language; and an extensive commentary on the poem’s contents, from its setting and characters to its descriptions of ocean-going ships, houses, furniture, perfumes, and much else.

Alex West lives in Lisbon and works as a freelance writer and translator. He has a Ph.D from Leiden University (2021); his dissertation won an Erasmus Dissertation Prize in 2022.

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgement

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Background

2 Sunda

3 Approaching Bujangga Manik

1 Codicology, Palaeography, and Language

1 Codicology

2 Palaeography

3 Language

2 Transliteration and Translation

3 Place in Bujangga Manik

1 Listing Places

2 Toponyms and Routes

4 People in Bujangga Manik

1 Titles and Kinship Terms

2 The Characters

5 Travelling by Sea

1 The Ships

2 The Crews and Their Tools

6 Things in Bujangga Manik

1 Plants and Animals

2 Metals and Miscellaneous Items

Epilogue

Appendix A: Primary Source Citations

Appendix B: Placenames and Placename Elements

Appendix C: Plant and Animal Species and Products

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bibliotheca Indonesica ; 39
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-67809-3 / 9004678093
ISBN-13	978-90-04-67809-5 / 9789004678095
Zustand	Neuware