Illuminations: The Writing Traditions of Indonesia

With its fifteen chapters and more than 380 full-color illustrations, this book offers the first comprehensive look at Indonesia’s writing traditions. Illuminations discusses in detail not only the physical materials of Indonesian manuscripts but the literary forms that the manuscripts recorded and preserved: religious and philosophical works, manuscripts of magic and divination, literature, poetry, drama, history and legal treatises. It is a publishing milestone, recording many rare and precious manuscripts and preserving them for posterity.