The Bugis chronicle of bone / / translated and edited by Campbell Macknight, Mukhlis Paeni and Muhlis Hadrawi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Macknight, C. C.; Paeni, Mukhlis,; Hadrawi, Muhlis,
• Place / Publishing House: Acton, Australian Capital Territory : : ANU Press,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) :; illustrations, maps

"The Bugis Chronicle of Bone is a masterwork in the historiographical tradition of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Written in the late seventeenth century for a very specific political purpose, it describes the steady growth of the kingdom of Bone from the fourteenth century onwards. The local con...

Table of Contents

• 1. The Chronicle of Bone in Bugis historiography
• 2. The definition of the work
• 3. The manuscript
• 4. The choice of this version of the work
• 5. Principles of transcription
• 6. Principles of translation
• 7. The nature of the work
• 8. The date of the work and the problem of the end
• 9. Early Western-language comment on the events of the chronicle
• 10. Previous editions and published translations of the chronicle
• 11. Commentary on the chronicle
• Appendix 1: Other manuscript versions of the chronicle
• Appendix 2: Absolute reign dates
• Appendix 3: Placenames in the chronicle
• The Bugis Chronicle of Bone: English text
• The Bugis Chronicle of Bone: Bugis text.