No two manuscripts of the same «work» are ever identical. Regional variation is one of the fundamental characteristics of Javanese literature. Given the nature of Javanese literature of the modern, or Islamic, period, this obscurity imposes a fundamental constraint on what sorts of literary and other questions can be comprehensively addressed by reliance on Leiden and Jakarta alone. Usually little more is known than the name of the manuscript's donor supplemented by what meager details can be gleaned from colonial sources concerning his Indies career and collecting habits. Manuscripts in both libraries are often poorly documented as to origin and date of acquisition. The lode of material in these two great collections runs so deep that it will never be played out yet both display significant deficiencies and limitations. Foremost among these were the manuscript collection of the (Koninklijk) Bataviaasch Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, presently the Bidang Naskah, Museum Nasional Republik Indonesia, in Jakarta, and the Oriental Department of the Leiden University Library. Until quite recently almost all scholarship on the literature and history of Java, insofar as it drew upon Javanese language manuscript material, depended almost exclusively on documents collected in a small number of repositories. Small Collections of Javanese Manuscripts in Indonesia

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