Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 82i.
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 well preserved and in excellent condition.
Physical appearance: The bark book has two wooden covers that are glued to the ends of the leparello-folded strip of bark. The upper cover (=front cover) has two holes on each of the two narrow sides, but there is no cord for carrying the manuscript attached. The cover is not decorated but left rough-hewn. Apart from one square with five times five fields and a few chapter markers (bindu) there are no illustrations. Even though the bark strip is well protected by the cover that portrudes to all sides, the right side of each page has been damaged resulting in a missing character in almost every line.
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. Only black ink has been used.
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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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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