Manuscripts in both libraries are often poorly documented as to origin and date of acquisition. The lode of material in these two great collections runs so deep that it will never be played out yet both display significant deficiencies and limitations. Foremost among these were the manuscript collection of the (Koninklijk) Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, presently the Bidang Naskah, Museum Nasional Republik Indonesia, in Jakarta, and the Oriental Department of the Leiden University Library. Until quite recently almost all scholarship on the literature and history of Java, insofar as it drew upon Javanese language manuscript material, depended almost exclusively on documents collected in a small number of repositories. Small Collections of Javanese Manuscripts in Indonesia
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