The Development and Complexity of Colophons in Malay Manuscripts

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· 발행기관 : 한국외국어대학교 동남아연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 동남아연구 / 19권 / 2호 / 261 ~ 290페이지
· 저자명 : 딩추밍

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Throughout the long history of manuscript tradition, the earliest Malay manuscripts were without colophons. They were added following the influence of Islamic writing tradition in the 17th century and strengthened thereafter through the influence of European writing tradition in the brink of 19th century. Although many of the colophons are very much the same in contents, others have grown steadily in length and complexity. Nevertheless, many of the authors’names and the titles of the manuscripts were believed to be added later on. This means that colophons in many Malay manuscripts were written by someone other than the original authors. But, it is interesting to note that this ‘alien material’cannot be treated as separate from the manuscript proper as it is important for identification of title, authorship and other bibliographical information relevant to the manuscripts. From the discussion, title page in modern printed book is believed to have been born out of our necessity for such information first appeared in the colophon. Then, it is in the printer’s pride of their craftsmanship and satisfaction in their good work that we see the beginning of imprint, a device which quickly came to be regarded as a kind of guarantee of the accuracy and authenticity of the text. As things stand, colophons contain materials prefatory to manuscript proper, thus must be treated with care to detail, though it is placed at the end of texts. Against this background, it is still being debated whether the colophon is preface or postscript. Anyway, the study of Malay manuscript can be made more easily or difficult by the variety of colophon which has caused anxiety in terms of their accuracy.

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