K erintji, in de course of history, has had politica! and cultural connections wiith the Minangkabau area to the north and with Djambi to the east. It is now again part of Djambi. Because of its South-Sumatran afinities it was included in the comprehensive bibliography on South-Sumatra compiled by Helfrich and Wellan and published by the farmer Zuid-Sumatra Instituut.In the field of written literature, a striking difference between Minangkabau and Kerintji is that in Kerintji many documents in the rèntjong (Ker. intjung) script, which was used before Arabic-Malay writing was introduced together with Islam, are preserved as heirlooms (Mal. pusaka, Ker. pusëko), whereas in the Minangkabau area there are none. The Kerintji writing is characteristically different from the rèntjong script of the Rëdjang and Middle-Malay 1 areas.In 1834 Marsden 2 published a Kerintji alphabet. In the course of the 19th century the documents written 1 in this script became sacred heirlooms. The script feil into disuse and the last experts who could read and write it died.

Since the publication of the catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections (Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 1977), further MSS have of course come to light, as have some of those errors which inevitably attend such a work. It seems appropriate to publish here a list of additions and substantive corrections known to the authors by the beginning of 1981. The authors of the catalogue are grateful to those librarians and scholars who have brought such things to their notice, and particularly to Dr. A. C. Milner for offering his descriptions of Malay MSS found in the Wellcome Institute for publication here.

2. Dr. Voorhoeve publishes a revised catalogue of the Malay manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris ; this enriched edition is a great improvement on the previous one by A. Cabaton (1912) now out of print.

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