Malay Manuscripts Are Intellectual Heritage
1. INTRODUCTION
Malay manuscripts are intellectual heritage of the past that are recognized as national heritage documents. Malay manuscripts here are defined as hand written works, produced around the 14th century until the early 20th century. The knowledge preserved inn these Malay manuscripts reflect the richness of the knowledge and glory of Malay civilization. Malay manuscript is the epitome of Malay scholars’ scholarship in ancient times. The writing and production activities of manuscript in various subjects to bequeath their science and knowledge about something for the next Malay generation. Among the areas of Malay manuscripts writing is often highlighted as areas consisting of religious knowledge fluently, fiqh, tasawuf, character and history while in the local Malay traditions such as story, culture and medicine.
Manuscript is the name given to hand-written copy writing. While the script used is Jawi. The Jawi script was adapted from the 30 letters of Arabic and 5 letters of Persian to form words in Malay. The material used to write Malay manuscripts is a pen, ink and paper. Pen used by the Malays authors were made from the trunk of a tree fern frond. Tree fern is a kind of family tree ferns are large and mostly grows in forests, especially in cold areas such as the highlands. The tree fern frond taken and cleaned before being cut to size and pen required by the author. To produce neat Jawi writing, pen angle cuts should be done carefully so as not to break easily and can be used for a long time. Besides pens, other materials needed are ink to write. There are several materials used as ink as found by other researchers Malay manuscripts. Often the ink used by the Malay writer is black. Materials to produce ink consists of materials from natural resources that are in the Malay community life such as; soot, charcoal and ink squid.
Another important basic material needed to write is the paper. In writing of Malay manuscripts, paper used is
Malay manuscripts are intellectual heritage of the past that are recognized as national heritage documents. Malay manuscripts here are defined as hand written works, produced around the 14th century until the early 20th century. The knowledge preserved inn these Malay manuscripts reflect the richness of the knowledge and glory of Malay civilization. Malay manuscript is the epitome of Malay scholars’ scholarship in ancient times. The writing and production activities of manuscript in various subjects to bequeath their science and knowledge about something for the next Malay generation. Among the areas of Malay manuscripts writing is often highlighted as areas consisting of religious knowledge fluently, fiqh, tasawuf, character and history while in the local Malay traditions such as story, culture and medicine.
Manuscript is the name given to hand-written copy writing. While the script used is Jawi. The Jawi script was adapted from the 30 letters of Arabic and 5 letters of Persian to form words in Malay. The material used to write Malay manuscripts is a pen, ink and paper. Pen used by the Malays authors were made from the trunk of a tree fern frond. Tree fern is a kind of family tree ferns are large and mostly grows in forests, especially in cold areas such as the highlands. The tree fern frond taken and cleaned before being cut to size and pen required by the author. To produce neat Jawi writing, pen angle cuts should be done carefully so as not to break easily and can be used for a long time. Besides pens, other materials needed are ink to write. There are several materials used as ink as found by other researchers Malay manuscripts. Often the ink used by the Malay writer is black. Materials to produce ink consists of materials from natural resources that are in the Malay community life such as; soot, charcoal and ink squid.
Another important basic material needed to write is the paper. In writing of Malay manuscripts, paper used is
References: http://www.pnm.gov.my/manuskrip/index.htm http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Bicara_Agama/20121207/ba_01/Kenali-Manuskrip-Melayu (7/12/2012) Oleh ROS MAHWATI AHMAD ZAKARIA Kurator Muzium Kesenian Islam Malaysia