Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 82g.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
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| Provenance: | Collected by Frederick Starr, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, 1892-1923.
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| Notes: | Page orientation: portrait.
Condition: The manuscript is in poor condition. On many pages the ink has almost completely disappeared.
Physical appearance: This very small bark book has no cover.
Description: Pustaha (bark book) made by the Batak people in North Sumatra (Indonesia) most likely in the nineteenth century.
Paper and ink: The manuscript is made of the bast (inner bark) of the aquilaria tree. Black as well as red ink has been used in this manuscript. The red ink is only used to highlight the chapter markers called bindu..
BINDU GODANG (large bindu) denotes a large ornament which serves as a chapter marker. BINDU denotes a smaller ornament which may introduce a new subject matter. BM stands for bindu metmet (small bindu) which serves as a paragraph markers. Punctuations such as full stops or commas are not known in the Batak script..
In Batak (Poda, Toba script).
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| Summary: | Pagar, Porsimboraon.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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