[ISLAM] De kroon aller koningen, van Bochârie van Djôhor, naar een oud Maleisch Handschrift vertaald door P. P. Roorda van Eijsinga,

Hoofdkommies belast met de afdeeling van Inlandsche Zaken, Lid van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Batavia : ter Lands Drukkerij, 1827. Square quarto (205 x 170 mm), contemporary gilt-lettered half morocco over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed and scuffed, leather worn and with backstop reattached, front hinge cracked, rear hinge almost completely split); added title page in Jawi: Tāj al-Salātīn iaitu Makota segala raja raja; [4], 8, xvii, [1 blank], [1 index], [1 blank] pp., 227 leaves; Indonesian Jawi Arabic text (read from right to left) with parallel Dutch translation; preliminary leaves with water staining and with a marginal ink stain to upper corner, added title almost detached and with short edge tears, occasional handling marks or stains to margins, endpapers browned, a few old library and private owner stamps.

The Tāj al-Salātīn (or Makota segala raja-raja) (Dutch: De kroon aller koningen; Eng: The Crown of Kings) is an ethical guide for rulers that was composed in Aceh in north Sumatra around 1603 by Bukhari al-Johori. It contains advice on good governance in accordance with the Islamic faith, based on the premise that the ruler is god’s agent on earth.

This 1827 bilingual edition was published in Batavia (the Dutch colonial name for Jakarta) by the colonial government. It contains a Dutch translation made from an early Malay manuscript by Philippus Peter Roorda van Eijsinga (1796-1856), Chief Commissioner in the Department of Internal Affairs, and Member of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.

Trove locates three copies (Monash University Library; NLA; SLV)