A Bibliography of classical Southeast Asian texts available in the National Library of Singapore


This is my attempt at a more complete bibliography! I won't manage to read everything, but I imagine folks online will find this a valuable resource. (I may have made mistakes here and there.)
Malay Peninsula & Singapore:
Undang-undang Melaka = The laws of Melaka / by Liaw Yock Fang, c. 1400s
Melaka
RCLOS, Level 11, 340.09595141 LIA -[LYF], 211 pages
Sejarah Melayu / Sulalatus al-Salatin, by Tun Seri Lanang, c. 1612, trans CC Brown
Singapore, Melaka
Level 11, 959.5 SEJ, 273 pages
Hikayat Hang Tuah / The Epic of Hang Tuah, c. 1700, trans Muhammad Haji Salleh
Melaka
Level 11, 398.2209595 HIK, 600 pages, also available for lending
The Epic of Bidasari, c. 1750, trans Chauncey C. Starkweather
Indrapura / Pahang
Level 8, 899.2808 EPI, also for lending, 208 pages
Bidasari : jewel of Malay Muslim culture / edited by Julian Millie.
Indrapura / Pahang
Level 8, 899.281 SYA, 310 pages, also at Bedok
Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa / The Kedah Annals, late 1700s, trans James Low
Kedah
Level 11, 959.51 MAR, 203 pages
Hikayat Marong Mahawangsa [microform] : or Kedah annals / edited by A. J. Sturrock.
Kedah
Level 11 RCLOS 959.5 HIK, microfilm (maybe not in English?)
Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala, Ahmad Rijaluddin, c. 1811, trans Cyril Skinner
Penang (?)
Level 8, 910.4 AHM, 198 pages
The Battle for junk Ceylon : the syair Sultan Maulana : text, translation and notes / edited by C. Skinner. Creator: Skinner, C, 1800s
Kedah
RUR, 899.230081102 BAT, 285 pages
The Precious Gift / Tuhfat Al-Nafis, by Raja Haji Ali, 1885 trans Virginia Matheson Hooker & Barbara Watson Andaya
Johor
Level 11, 959.5142 ALI, 476 pages

Java:
Arjunawiwāha : the marriage of Arjuna of Mpu Kanwa / edited and translated with an introduction by Stuart Robson. Creator: Kanwa, Empu, 1000s

Level 8, 808.13209598 KAN, 208 pages
Bhomantaka: The Death of Bhoma, 1100s, trans A Teeuw and SO Robson

Level 8, 899.222 BHO 695 pages
Sumanasantaka, by Mpu Monaguna, 1200s, trans Peter Worsley, S. Supomo, Thomas M. Hunter, Margaret Fletcher
Based on Kalidasa
Level 8, 899.222 MON, 714 pages
Nagarakrtagama, by Mpu Prapanca, 1300s, trans Stuart Robson

Level 11, 959.8012 PRA, 158 pages
Sutasoma: The ancient tale of a Buddha-prince from 14th century Java, trans Kate O’Brien
Set in India but foundational text for Bali and Indon
Level 8, 899.222, 332 pages
Arjunawijaya : a kakawin of Mpu Tantular / edited and translated by S. Supomo, 1300s

Level 8, 899.271001 TAN, 363 pages
Kuänjarakaròna dharmakathana : liberation through the law of the Buddha : an Old Javanese poem / by Mpu òDusun ; edited and translated by A. Teeuw and S.O. Robson, with a contribution on the reliefs of Caònòdi Jago by A.J. Bernet Kempers.

Level 11, RCLOS, 899.2302 KUN -[LYF], 230 pages
Śiwarātrikalpa of Mpu Tanakuṅ. An old Javanese poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations, Tanakung Mpu, 1400s, trans A. Teeuw

Level 8, 899.271 SIW
The admonitions of Seh Bari; 1500s, Javanese Muslim text, attributed to the Saint of Bonan

RUR 297.4 KIT
Serat Cabolek, by Yasadipura I, 1700s / The Book of Cabolek : a critical edition with introduction, translation, and notes : a contribution to the study of the Javanese mystical tradition, by S. Soebardi

RUR 899.271 SOE
Forty and One Nights of Rain, by Crown Prince Mangkunegoro, 1814, trans Elizabeth D. Inandiak & Georges Khal

Borrowed from Jimmy Ong
The Centhini story : the Javanese journey of life / based on the original Serat Centhini translated and condensed by Soewito Santoso ; photographs by Fendi Siregar ; additional text by Kestity Pringgoharjono.

Level 8, 899.2223 SAN , 399 pages
Stories from the Serat Centhini : understanding the Javanese journey of life, by Soewito Santoso, Kestity Pringgoharjono

Level 11, RCLOS 828.9959803 SAN, 207 pages
Astadsya-parva, 900s: Indonesian Mahabharata: Adi Parva, trans I Gusti Putu Phalgunadi

Level 8, 899.27102 MAH
Wanban Wideya: A Javanese Panji romance, trans SO Robson

RUR, 899.272 WAN, 311 pages
The romance of King Aṅliṅ Darma in Javanese literature, G. W. J. Drewes.

RUR 899.272 DRE
Kroprak Ferrara / An early Javanese code of Muslim ethics, trans GWJ Drewes

Level 11, 297.5 EAR, 104 pages
Three Old Sundanese poems / edited and translated by J. Noorduyn and A. Teeuw: The sons of Rama and Rawana -- The ascension of Sri Ajnyana -- The story of Bujangga Manik: a pilgrim's progress.

Level 8, 899.221108 THR, 495 pages

Bali:
Parthayana: The Journeying of Partha, 1700s, trans Helen Creese


Level 8, 899.22 PAR, 504 pages
Babad Bulelen : a Balinese dynastic genealogy / by P.J. Worsley.

RUR 899.272 BAB
The Balinese poem Basur : an introduction to magic / edited and translated by C. Hooykaas.

Level 8, 899.276001 BAL
A Balinese temple festival / by C. Hooykaas.


Level 11, 291.36095986 HOO

Lombok:
Puspakrema: A Javanese Romance from Lombok, Th C van der Meij

Level 8, 899.222 Mei, 230 pages

Sumatra:
The poems of Hamzah Fansuri / edited with an introduction, a translation, and commentaries, accompanied by the Javanese translations of two of his prose works by G.W.J. Drewes and L.F. Brakel, c. 1600

Level 8, 899.2404 HAM, 285 pages
Syair Perang Siak, 1700s, trans Donald J Goudie.
Riau
Level 8 899.23009102 SYA, 280 pages
The Guritan of Radin Suane: a study of the Besemah oral epic from South Sumatra, trans William A. Collins.

South Sumatra
Level 11, 398.2095981 GUR, 548 pages
Hikayat Raja Pasai / The Pasai Chronicle, 1400s, trans Russell Jones
Aceh
Level 8, 899.283 HIK, also CL and JRL etc
Hikajat Potjut Muhamat : an Achehnese epic, trans G.W.J. Drewes.
Aceh
Level 8, 899.23008102 RUK, 286 pages
Two Achehnese poems : Hikajat Ranto and Hikajat Teungku di Meukéʼ / edited and translated by G.W.J. Drewes.
Aceh
Level 8, 899.24008102 TWO

Borneo:
Hikajat Bandjar, 1663, trans JJ Ras
Banjar
Level 11 RCLOS 907.2 RAS

Sulawesi:
The Makassar annals, trans William Cummings
Makassar
Level 11, 959.84 MAK, 353 pages
The birth of I La Galigo : a poem inspired by the Bugis legend of the same name / Indonesian language text by Sapardi Djoko Damono ; English language text by John McGlynn
Bugis (summary of beginning of epic)
Level 8, 899.22111 MAC

Others
Hikayat Indraputra, late 1500s, ed. S.W.R. Mulyadi

Level 8, 899.2300981 HIK, 315 pages
Bustan al-Salatin / the Garden of Kings, by Nuruddin al-Raniri, 1636, ed., Jelani Harun

Level 8, 899.2809032 JEL, 352 pages, available for lending at JRL
Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim, trans. Russell Jones.
Shortened text
Level 8, 899.2302 HIK
Krakatau: The Tale of Lampung Submerged / Syair Lampung Karam, by Muhammad Saleh, 1883, trans John McGlynn

Level 8, 899.2211 MUH, 191 pages
The Malay Hikayat Miʻrāj Nabi Muḥammad = The Prophet Muhammad's nocturnal journey to Heaven and Hell, trans Th.C. van der Meij, N. Lambooij

Level 11, 297.633 MAL
Hikajat Andakén Penurat, trans So Robson

Level 8, 899.2302 HIK
The story of Muhammad Hanafiyyah : a medieval muslim romance / translated from the Malay by L. F. Brakel.
Set in Persia
899.2300981 BRA
A merry senhor in the Malay world : four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta / edited by A. Teeuw ... [et al.].

Level 8, 899.281009 MER, 466 pages

Philippines:
Philippine Folk Literature: The Epics, ed. Damiana L. Eugenio
Various
Personal Collection
Darangen, trans Maria Delia Coronel
Mindanao
RUR
English 899.211 DAR

Thailand / Siam:
Yuan Phai, The Defeat of Lanna, c. 1400s, trans Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
Thai
Personal collection
Hikayat Patani, c. 1700, trans A. Teeuw, D. K. Wyatt
Patani
Level 11 RCLOS 899.2302 HIK, 2 vols 330 pages
The Ramakien, 1799-1807, trans Ray A Olsson
Thai
RUR 294.5922 RAM, 423 pages
Sunthorn Phu : an anthology / [compiled by] Montri Umavijani., 1800s
Thai
Level 8, 895.9112 MON
The story of Phra Abhai Mani : Sunthorn Phu's famous Thai classic / told in English by Prem Chaya.
Thai
CL 828.99593 SUN, 79 pages
Nirat Phra Prathom / Sunthorn Phu ; a translation by Montri Umavijani.
Thai
RUR 895.9112 SUN, 57 pages
Khun Chang Khun Phaen, transcribed 1872, trans Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
Thai
Level 8, 895.9111 KHU

Myanmar / Burma: 
The Glass Palace Chronicle, 1829-32, trans Pe Maung Tin and G.H. Luce.
Burma
Level 11 RCLOS 959.1 GLA -[GBH]

Cambodia:
Reamker, trans Judith M. Jacob and Kuoch Haksrea

Level 11, 294.5922 REA, 320 pages

Vietnam:
The Tale of Kieu, by Nguyen, Du, 1820, trans Huỳnh Sanh Thông

Level 8, 895.92212 NGU, 211 pages

General:
Voices of Southeast Asia, ed. George E. Dutton

Level 11, 959 VOI, also available for lending
Oral traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania : a bibliography, by Herman C Kemp

Level 11, 016.39820959 KEM -[LIB]
Traces of the Mahabharata and Ramayana in Javanese and Malay Literature, eds. Ding Choo Ming, ‎Willem van der Molen

Level 8, 899.22209 TRA, also available for lending
Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine in 19th Century Malay Syair, by Mulaikas Hijas (previously read)

Level 8, 899.2810093522 HIJ, also available for lending
A History of Classical Malay Literature, by Liaw Yock Fang

Level 8, 899.2809 LIA



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