Where are the Palembang Kraton manuscripts? Trajectories of a royal library
The role of Malay royal courts as patrons of manuscript production has been deemed to be prominent, but the collections of manuscripts they housed have been very little known to scholarship. Through the case of the Palembang Sultanate in Sumatra, I investigate the extant manuscripts originating from...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:archipel_8530 https://doi.org/10.4000/15d9g urn:doi:10.4000/15d9g en https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/8530 2025-12-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/15d9g https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ Where are the Palembang Kraton manuscripts? Trajectories of a royal library Archipel Association Archipel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2104-3655 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0044-8613 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel Darmawan, Alan Islam Palembang Sultanate royal library manuscripts collection colonialism provenance Sultanat de Palembang bibliothèque royale manuscrits collection Islam colonialisme provenance The role of Malay royal courts as patrons of manuscript production has been deemed to be prominent, but the collections of manuscripts they housed have been very little known to scholarship. Through the case of the Palembang Sultanate in Sumatra, I investigate the extant manuscripts originating from the palace library. Some moved into the hands of private owners in Palembang, while others were dispersed into colonial collections in Europe and Southeast Asia. Harking back to the early formation of the royal collection in the 17th century and its destruction upon the British and Dutch attacks in the early 19th century, this reconstruction of the collection uses the royal library as a viewpoint through which to understand the impacts of colonialism on manuscript traditions in the region, and to situate Palembang intellectual culture within regional and interregional scholarly networks. Le rôle des cours royales malaises en tant que mécènes de la production de manuscrits est reconnu, mais les collections qu’elles abritaient restent largement méconnues des chercheurs. À travers l’étude du cas du sultanat de Palembang à Sumatra, j’examine les manuscrits existants provenant de la bibliothèque du palais. Certains sont passés entre les mains de collectionneurs privés à Palembang, tandis que d’autres ont été dispersés dans des collections coloniales en Europe et en Asie du Sud-Est. En retraçant la formation de la collection royale au XVIIe siècle et sa destruction lors des attaques britanniques et néerlandaises au début du XIXe siècle, cette reconstitution utilise la bibliothèque royale comme point de départ pour comprendre l’impact du colonialisme sur les traditions manuscrites dans la région et pour situer la culture intellectuelle de Palembang au sein des réseaux savants régionaux et interrégionaux. |
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The role of Malay royal courts as patrons of manuscript production has been deemed to be prominent, but the collections of manuscripts they housed have been very little known to scholarship. Through the case of the Palembang Sultanate in Sumatra, I investigate the extant manuscripts originating from the palace library. Some moved into the hands of private owners in Palembang, while others were dispersed into colonial collections in Europe and Southeast Asia. Harking back to the early formation of the royal collection in the 17th century and its destruction upon the British and Dutch attacks in the early 19th century, this reconstruction of the collection uses the royal library as a viewpoint through which to understand the impacts of colonialism on manuscript traditions in the region, and to situate Palembang intellectual culture within regional and interregional scholarly networks. |
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