Golden Letters ~ Writing Traditions of Indonesia

This book offers the first comprehensive look at Indonesia’s writing traditions. Golden Letters 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.

Condition: London, The British Library / Jakarta, Yayasan Lontar, 1991. Illustrated in colour throughout, map. 152 pp