A merry senhor in the Malay world : four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta

Author(s)

• Teeuw, A.

Bibliographic Information

A merry senhor in the Malay world : four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta

edited by A. Teeuw ... [et al.]

（Bibliotheca Indonesica / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 30）

KITLV, 2004

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Uniform Title

Syair Sinyor Kosta

Note

Includes the original Malay text in Jawi script and English translations

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Around a century ago a Malay poem which tells of a foreigner, always indicated as Sinyor, in Southeast Asia who elopes with Lela Mayang, the wife of a wealthy Chinaman. The latter sets out in pursuit of the couple and engages in a naval battle with the Sinyor in an attempt to get his wife back. The Syair Sinyor Kosta, as the poem is known, presents us with fascinating pictures and glimpses of Malay society, in this case a nineteenth-century society in transition.

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Details

• NCID: BA90041235
• ISBN:
  • 9067182168
  • 9067182168
• LCCN: 2005424624
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engmay
• Original Language Code: may
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v. (x, 466 p.)
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL5139.S928
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Syair Sinyor Kosta -- Criticism, Textual
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0121075X