The Diary of a Javanese Prince

THE 463-page diary, written in Javanese gagrak anyar script, lies neglected among old books in the Mangkunegaran library, Rekso Poestoko, in Solo. All in photocopies, the pages are tied together into a bundle with raffia strings. The first four pages are detached loose in a brown carton.

That’s the lot of the diary written by Raden Mas Said, Mangkunegara I and founder of the dynasty, when he was 53. The diary in the form of tembang macapat wi

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