A Merry Senhor in the Malay World

by Teeuw, A.; Dumas, R.; Salleh, Muhammad Haji; Tol, R.; Van Yperen, M. J.

• ISBN13: 9789067182164
• ISBN10: 9067182168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Table of Contents

Preface by A. Teeuw	vii
I Tradition and transmission	1	(64)
Introduction	1	(2)
Previous scholarly interest	3	(7)
The manuscripts, their history and their scribes/authors	10	(20)
The relations between the manuscripts and the procedure followed in editing the text	30	(12)
Synopsis of the four versions ABCD	42	(23)
II The four versions	65	(174)
Texts T and B: Syair Sinyor Kosta	65	(128)
Text C: Syair Silambari	193	(8)
Text D: Syair Sinyor Kista	201	(38)
III Translations
The translation of text T	239	(65)
Introduction: The problems of translating the Syair Sinyor Kosta	239	(14)
Translation	253	(51)
Continuing a tradition: Recreating the Syair Sinyor Kista	304	(33)
Introduction by Muhammad Haji Salleh	304	(4)
The poem of Sinyor Kista	308	(29)
IV The variant versions of the Syair Sinyor Kosta; An attempt at analysis and interpretation
Introduction	337	(2)
Comparative textual history	339	(8)
The data contained in the manuscripts	339	(2)
Textual comparison of the four versions	341	(2)
Detailed comparison of the versions T and B	343	(3)
Concluding remarks	346	(1)
A mimetic comparison of the four versions	347	(14)
Introduction	347	(1)
Mimetic aspects of C	348	(4)
Mimetic aspects of B	352	(5)
Mimetic aspects of T	357	(1)
Mimetic aspects of D	358	(2)
Concluding remarks	360	(1)
Rhyme and verse structure	361	(29)
Introduction	361	(1)
The structure of the verse	362	(2)
Comparison	364	(2)
Rhyme: Constraints and practice	366	(6)
Rhyming words in two versions T and D	372	(9)
Poetical constraints and linguistic usage	381	(7)
Concluding remarks	388	(2)
Structure and significance	390	(19)
Introduction	390	(1)
Version T	391	(7)
Version C	398	(2)
Version B	400	(1)
Version D	401	(8)
V Apparatus criticus and notes
Apparatus criticus to text T and colophons	409	(10)
Notes to T	419	(6)
Notes to text C	425	(5)
Notes to text D	430	(11)
Glossary	441	(10)
Bibliography and abbreviations	451	(10)
About the editors	461	(2)
Index	463