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
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Melaka
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RCLOS, Level 11, 340.09595141
LIA -[LYF], 211 pages
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Sejarah Melayu / Sulalatus
al-Salatin, by Tun Seri Lanang, c. 1612, trans CC Brown
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Singapore, Melaka
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Level 11, 959.5 SEJ, 273 pages
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Hikayat Hang Tuah / The Epic of
Hang Tuah, c. 1700, trans Muhammad Haji Salleh
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Melaka
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Level 11, 398.2209595 HIK, 600
pages, also available for lending
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The Epic of Bidasari, c.
1750, trans Chauncey C. Starkweather
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Indrapura / Pahang
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Level 8, 899.2808 EPI, also for
lending, 208 pages
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Bidasari : jewel of Malay
Muslim culture / edited by Julian Millie.
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Indrapura / Pahang
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Level 8, 899.281 SYA, 310
pages, also at Bedok
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Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa / The
Kedah Annals, late 1700s, trans James Low
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Kedah
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Level 11, 959.51 MAR, 203 pages
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Hikayat Marong Mahawangsa
[microform] : or Kedah annals / edited by A. J. Sturrock.
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Kedah
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Level 11 RCLOS 959.5 HIK,
microfilm (maybe not in English?)
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Hikayat perintah negeri
Benggala, Ahmad Rijaluddin, c. 1811, trans Cyril Skinner
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Penang (?)
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Level 8, 910.4 AHM, 198 pages
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The Battle for junk Ceylon :
the syair Sultan Maulana : text, translation and notes / edited by C.
Skinner. Creator: Skinner, C, 1800s
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Kedah
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RUR, 899.230081102 BAT, 285
pages
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The Precious Gift / Tuhfat
Al-Nafis, by Raja Haji Ali, 1885 trans Virginia Matheson Hooker & Barbara
Watson Andaya
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Johor
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Level 11, 959.5142 ALI, 476
pages
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Java:
Arjunawiwāha : the marriage of
Arjuna of Mpu Kanwa / edited and translated with an introduction by Stuart
Robson. Creator: Kanwa, Empu, 1000s
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Level 8, 808.13209598 KAN, 208
pages
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Bhomantaka: The Death of Bhoma,
1100s, trans A Teeuw and SO Robson
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Level 8, 899.222 BHO 695 pages
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Sumanasantaka, by Mpu Monaguna,
1200s, trans Peter Worsley, S. Supomo, Thomas M. Hunter, Margaret Fletcher
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Based on Kalidasa
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Level 8, 899.222 MON, 714 pages
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Nagarakrtagama, by Mpu
Prapanca, 1300s, trans Stuart Robson
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Level 11, 959.8012 PRA, 158
pages
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Sutasoma: The ancient tale of a
Buddha-prince from 14th century Java, trans Kate O’Brien
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Set in India but foundational
text for Bali and Indon
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Level 8, 899.222, 332 pages
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Arjunawijaya : a kakawin of Mpu
Tantular / edited and translated by S. Supomo, 1300s
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Level 8, 899.271001 TAN, 363
pages
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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.
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Level 11, RCLOS, 899.2302 KUN
-[LYF], 230 pages
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Śiwarātrikalpa of Mpu
Tanakuṅ. An old Javanese poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations,
Tanakung Mpu, 1400s, trans A. Teeuw
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Level 8, 899.271 SIW
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The admonitions of Seh Bari;
1500s, Javanese Muslim text, attributed to the Saint of Bonan
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RUR 297.4 KIT
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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
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RUR 899.271 SOE
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Forty and One Nights of Rain,
by Crown Prince Mangkunegoro, 1814, trans Elizabeth D. Inandiak &
Georges Khal
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Borrowed from Jimmy Ong
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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.
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Level 8, 899.2223 SAN , 399
pages
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Stories from the Serat Centhini
: understanding the Javanese journey of life, by Soewito Santoso,
Kestity Pringgoharjono
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Level 11, RCLOS 828.9959803
SAN, 207 pages
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Astadsya-parva, 900s:
Indonesian Mahabharata: Adi Parva, trans I Gusti Putu Phalgunadi
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Level 8, 899.27102 MAH
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Wanban Wideya: A Javanese Panji
romance, trans SO Robson
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RUR, 899.272 WAN, 311 pages
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The romance of King Aṅliṅ
Darma in Javanese literature, G. W. J. Drewes.
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RUR 899.272 DRE
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Kroprak Ferrara / An early
Javanese code of Muslim ethics, trans GWJ Drewes
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Level 11, 297.5 EAR, 104 pages
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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.
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Level 8, 899.221108 THR, 495
pages
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Bali:
Parthayana: The Journeying of
Partha, 1700s, trans Helen Creese
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Level 8, 899.22 PAR, 504 pages
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Babad Bulelen : a Balinese
dynastic genealogy / by P.J. Worsley.
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RUR 899.272 BAB
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The Balinese poem Basur : an
introduction to magic / edited and translated by C. Hooykaas.
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Level 8, 899.276001 BAL
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A Balinese temple festival / by
C. Hooykaas.
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Level 11, 291.36095986 HOO
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Lombok:
Puspakrema: A Javanese Romance
from Lombok, Th C van der Meij
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Level 8, 899.222 Mei, 230 pages
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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
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Level 8, 899.2404 HAM, 285
pages
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Syair Perang Siak, 1700s,
trans Donald J Goudie.
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Riau
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Level 8 899.23009102 SYA, 280
pages
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The Guritan of Radin Suane: a
study of the Besemah oral epic from South Sumatra, trans William A. Collins.
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South Sumatra
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Level 11, 398.2095981 GUR, 548
pages
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Hikayat Raja Pasai / The Pasai
Chronicle, 1400s, trans Russell Jones
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Aceh
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Level 8, 899.283 HIK, also CL
and JRL etc
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Hikajat Potjut Muhamat : an
Achehnese epic, trans G.W.J. Drewes.
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Aceh
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Level 8, 899.23008102 RUK, 286
pages
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Two Achehnese poems : Hikajat
Ranto and Hikajat Teungku di Meukéʼ / edited and translated by G.W.J.
Drewes.
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Aceh
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Level 8, 899.24008102 TWO
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Borneo:
Hikajat Bandjar, 1663, trans JJ
Ras
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Banjar
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Level 11 RCLOS 907.2 RAS
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Sulawesi:
The Makassar annals, trans
William Cummings
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Makassar
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Level 11, 959.84 MAK, 353 pages
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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
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Bugis (summary of beginning of
epic)
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Level 8, 899.22111 MAC
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Others
Hikayat Indraputra, late 1500s,
ed. S.W.R. Mulyadi
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Level 8, 899.2300981 HIK, 315
pages
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Bustan al-Salatin / the Garden
of Kings, by Nuruddin al-Raniri, 1636, ed., Jelani Harun
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Level 8, 899.2809032 JEL, 352
pages, available for lending at JRL
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Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim, trans.
Russell Jones.
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Shortened text
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Level 8, 899.2302 HIK
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Krakatau: The Tale of Lampung
Submerged / Syair Lampung Karam, by Muhammad Saleh, 1883, trans John McGlynn
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Level 8, 899.2211 MUH, 191
pages
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The Malay Hikayat Miʻrāj Nabi
Muḥammad = The Prophet Muhammad's nocturnal journey to Heaven and Hell,
trans Th.C. van der Meij, N. Lambooij
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Level 11, 297.633 MAL
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Hikajat Andakén Penurat, trans
So Robson
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Level 8, 899.2302 HIK
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The story of Muhammad
Hanafiyyah : a medieval muslim romance / translated from the Malay by L. F.
Brakel.
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Set in Persia
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899.2300981 BRA
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A merry senhor in the Malay
world : four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta / edited by A. Teeuw ... [et
al.].
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Level 8, 899.281009 MER, 466
pages
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Philippines:
Philippine Folk Literature: The
Epics, ed. Damiana L. Eugenio
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Various
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Personal Collection
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Darangen, trans Maria Delia
Coronel
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Mindanao
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RUR
English 899.211 DAR |
Thailand / Siam:
Yuan Phai, The Defeat of Lanna,
c. 1400s, trans Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
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Thai
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Personal collection
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Hikayat Patani, c. 1700, trans
A. Teeuw, D. K. Wyatt
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Patani
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Level 11 RCLOS 899.2302 HIK, 2
vols 330 pages
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The Ramakien, 1799-1807, trans
Ray A Olsson
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Thai
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RUR 294.5922 RAM, 423 pages
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Sunthorn Phu : an anthology /
[compiled by] Montri Umavijani., 1800s
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Thai
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Level 8, 895.9112 MON
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The story of Phra Abhai Mani : Sunthorn
Phu's famous Thai classic / told in English by Prem Chaya.
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Thai
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CL 828.99593 SUN, 79 pages
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Nirat Phra Prathom / Sunthorn
Phu ; a translation by Montri Umavijani.
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Thai
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RUR 895.9112 SUN, 57 pages
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Khun Chang Khun Phaen,
transcribed 1872, trans Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
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Thai
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Level 8, 895.9111 KHU
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Myanmar / Burma:
The Glass Palace Chronicle,
1829-32, trans Pe Maung Tin and G.H. Luce.
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Burma
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Level 11 RCLOS 959.1 GLA -[GBH]
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Cambodia:
Reamker, trans Judith M. Jacob
and Kuoch Haksrea
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Level 11, 294.5922 REA, 320
pages
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Vietnam:
The Tale of Kieu, by Nguyen,
Du, 1820, trans Huỳnh Sanh Thông
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Level 8, 895.92212 NGU, 211
pages
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General:
Voices of Southeast Asia,
ed. George E. Dutton
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Level 11, 959 VOI, also
available for lending
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Oral traditions of Southeast
Asia and Oceania : a bibliography, by Herman C Kemp
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Level 11, 016.39820959 KEM
-[LIB]
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Traces of the Mahabharata and
Ramayana in Javanese and Malay Literature, eds. Ding Choo Ming, Willem van der Molen
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Level 8, 899.22209 TRA, also
available for lending
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Victorious Wives: The Disguised
Heroine in 19th Century Malay Syair, by Mulaikas Hijas (previously
read)
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Level 8, 899.2810093522 HIJ,
also available for lending
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A History of Classical Malay
Literature, by Liaw Yock Fang
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Level 8, 899.2809 LIA
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