Small Forms in a Long Malay Romance: The Berlin Manuscript of Hikayat Dewa Mandu
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Kris Ramlan “Seven of you, and I alone.” With this playful challenge, Angkaran Dewa, companion to the hero of a Malay romance, invites the princess’s attendants to a contest in verse. The princess smiles and urges them to answer. Dang Areka Warna draws her bow across the rebab, a bowed string instrument, […]



Porträt Assaf Levitin und Na’aman Wagner © Assaf Levitin
Mikrographie aus der Erfurter Bibel, 1343 fertiggestellt. SBB-PK, Ms. or. fol. 1211, Bl. 459v | © Stabi Berlin.