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The Javanese text published here under the name “The Admonitions of Seh Bari” is contained in Cod. Or. 1928 of the Leiden University Library. This manuscript did not become part of the collection of oriental manuscripts until about 1870. Before that it was part of the collection of manuscripts (kept in Leiden) originally made by Bonaventura Vulcanius, who was born in Bruges in 1538 and was professor of Greek at the University of Leiden from 1578–1614. On the title-page we find the words Liber Japonensis, written there by Vulcanius himself. It is probably because of this inscription that the book was not recognized as Javanese until some centuries later.
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See: R. A. Nicholson, ‘The Quest for God’, An early Mohammedan Treatise of mystical devotion, in The Quest, Vol. XIX (1928), pp. 225–238, and Islamica Vol. II (19), pp. 402-415; C. Brockelmann, G.A.L., S. I: 355.
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Drewes, G.W.J. (1969). Introduction. In: The Admonitions of Seh Bari. Bibliotheca Indonesica, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0899-5_1
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