By: E. U. KRATZ[2] The work of editing and publishing Malay manuscripts, which are said to amount to some five thousand in all (Ismail Hussein, 1974: 12), has been in progress ever since the early 19th century. By 1846 eleven texts were available in print (Lenting, 1846: XI). In 1937, almost one hundred years later, this number had increased to 87 editions of various ...