Two Manuscripts of <i>The Kings of the Pasai Chronicle</i> (Notes on the Text s History)
The Kings of the Pasai Chronicle (the 15th century) is the earliest Malayan chronicle and perhaps the earliest of the compositions written in Malay which narrates the history of the Samudra-Pasai kingdom (North Sumatra) and covers the events from the mid-13th to the mid-14th century. There are only two manuscripts which contain the text of the chronicle housed at the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society collections (London). The paper proposes an analysis of the existing versions of the text s history with a number of additions and amendments to them.