1970/01/01 by P. Voorhoeve · 1 citation
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A preliminary list of pusaka documents with notes, and a transliteration by the late Dr. Poerbdtjaraka of the lontar-manuscript of Mendapo Hiang.K erintji, in de course of history, has had politica!and cultural connections wiith the Minangkabau area to the north and with Djambi to the east.It is now again part of Djambi.Because of its South-Sumatran afinities it was included in the comprehensive bibliography on South-Sumatra compiled by Helfrich and Wellan and published by the farmer Zuid-Sumatra Instituut.In the field of written literature, a striking difference between Minangkabau and Kerintji is that in Kerintji many documents in the rèntjong (Ker.intjung) script, which was used before Arabic-Malay writing was introduced together with Islam, are preserved as heirlooms (Mal.pusaka, Ker.pusëko), whereas in the Minangkabau area there are none.The Kerintji writing is characteristically different from the rèntjong script of the Rëdjang and Middle-Malay 1 areas.In 1834 Marsden 2 published a Kerintji alphabet.In the course of the 19th century the documents written 1 in this script became sacred heirlooms.The script feil into disuse and the last experts who could read and write it died.In 1903 Kerintji submitted to the Dutch colonial government.On