Betawi pada abad ke-19 menjadi tempat penyalinan naskah atau skriptorium. Naskah disalin di lembaga pemerintah dan di beberapa kampung oleh masyarakat. Banyaknya naskah tersebut membuktikan bahwa intelektualitas masyarakat Betawi sudah tinggi. Naskah-naskah yang disalin masyarakat memiliki keunikan, terutama banyaknya dekorasi naskah berupa iluminasi, ilustrasi, dan kaligrafi. Dekorasi atau hiasan tersebut disesuaikan dengan jenis cerita. Dalam makalah ini dibahas skriptorium naskah Betawi dengan kekayaan naskahnya, pengarang dan penyalin, serta keberagaman dekorasi dalam bentuk iluminasi dan ilustrasi yang menjadi keunikan naskah Betawi. Metode kodikologi digunakan untuk membahas skriptorium dan dekorasi naskah Betawi. Dari pembahasan ini ditemukan bahwa pada abad ke-19 di Betawi banyak diproduksi naskah. Naskah yang disalin bukan hanya oleh Pemerintah Hindia-Belanda yang digunakan sebagai bahan pelajaran bagi para pejabat yang akan ditugasi ke Hindia-Belanda, melainkan oleh masyarakat yang naskahnya disewakan. Dekorasi berupa iluminasi dan ilustrasi  berfungsi sebagai hiasan untuk menarik minat pembaca. Kesimpulannya bahwa Betawi sebagai skriptorium naskah pada masa lalu memperlihatkan dinamika intelektualitas masyarakatnya yang banyak memproduksi naskah untuk bahan bacaan masyarakat. In the 19th century, Betawi became a scriptorium, place of writing manuscripts. The manuscripts copied in government agencies and in some vilages by community. The manuscripts consists of many genres. The large numbers of the manuscript prove that the community in Betawi was already high intellect. The manuscript from Betawi which was copied by scribes and has uniqueness. There are the large numbers of manuscripts was decorated by illumination, illustration, and calligraphy. An ornament is depends on a kind of story. In this paper we want to discussed, Betawi as a place of copied or scriptorium with riches of manuscripts, author and scribes, and the diversity of decorations like ilumination, illustration, and challigraphy as a uniquenessof of Betawi manuscript. Codicologi methods used to discuss of scriptorium, illumination, and illustration of the manuscripts. From discussion we found that Betawi has many scribes. In the government of Holland-Indies manuscript copied by scribes, they paid for writing manuscripts which was used as a lesson to officials will be assigned to Holland-Indies. Manucripts belong to the community was leased for many reader. The manuscripts decorated by illumination and illustration. It serves to attract the readers. The conclusion is scriptorium of Batawi manuscript in the past showed the intellectuality of Betawi people many producing manuscripts for materials reading.

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Mu'jizah is a senior researcher at the Badan Bahasa (National Language for Development and Cultivation), Ministry of Education and Culture of Republic of Indonesia. In 2007-2015 she was head of Language and Literature Studies. She got her doctor's degree at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia with a dissertation entitled Iluminasi surat raja-raja Melayu abad ke-18 dan ke-19. She is also a guest lecturer at the Graduate Program, Faculty of Humanities,

During the rapid development of information technology, the existence of a digital-based literature learning page was very much needed. This page can increase students' reading interest. On the literature page, students learn aesthetics, language enrichment, character education, imagination, and creation. For this reason, the Vista Sastra page was created as the final product of the feasibility study of students' literary reading material. This page was a digital-based literary learning enrichment. The goal was to find a way to increase interest in reading literature for high school students. Research and development method were used in this research. The steps taken include selecting literary reading, testing, selecting selected literature recommendations, creating page, and testing page. This literature learning platform was prepared to assist high school students in getting to know the richness of Indonesian literature, author's bio and creative process, guidelines, discussion forums, and evaluation. Vista Sastra can help students learn literature effectively and efficiently and independently build their imagination and creativity.

Health has become an essential part among Malay communities. Keeping healthy life has long been a tradition, especially in Pulau Penyengat with the existence of a site known as gedung tabib or drug store. The evidence of local wisdom also appears in several manuscripts, among which are entitled Ilmu Tabib, Obat-Obatan Melayu, and Rumah Obat in the collection of Yayasan Indrasakti. The discussion herewith is focusing on the typical medical system of Malay communities to keep their health life with the hope to socialize it to later generation as an invaluable legacy of the former generation. Qualitative methods were applied in the analysis of the primary data taken from the collections of the manuscripts of Yayasan Indrasakti that have been transliterated. The results of the analysis showed important clues on how the traditional healer had diagnosed health. Cure could then be prescribed based on its symptoms. The medical process includes medicinal herbs taken from flora and fauna given with mythical spell. In conclusion, the manuscripts clearly indicate that there was a tradition among Malay communities to keep them healthy, and this form of local wisdom needs preservation for later generation.