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A stave of 16th century Malay poetry

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A stave of 16th century Malay poetry

This short note by W. Linehan presents a stave (stanza) of 16th-century Malay poetry, published in the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1951), pp. 153–154.

Summary

The article is a brief textual fragment in which Linehan reproduces and presumably contextualises a single stave of Malay verse dating to the 16th century. As a two-page contribution, it falls within the journal’s convention for short notes on individual textual items of historical or literary interest. The specific content of the stave and any accompanying commentary are not available in the provided source text.

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