Animals in Javanese manuscript illustrations

Most Javanese manuscript illustrations of narrative poems and (pseudo)-historical chronicles (babad) depict only one part of the natural world: animals. Animals are portrayed in relation to the characters in the text they illustrate. Some illustrated Javanese manuscripts are discussed below in relat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dick van der Meij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2022-04-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss1/5/