Digital images of ‘Alamat Surat Ubat'an. Scribe: al-Haji ‘Abd-al-Hamid bin Muhamad Thoha; date unknown.
Notes: A collection of recipies for traditional medicines, such as when one is bit by a snake. Also prayers, incantations, and talismans. A manuscript owned by someone originating from Palembang. Between thick, brown leather boards, bound with thread. In black ink and red ink for some words, also some notes in blue and black pencil. On several pages we find stamps in a flower motif in red and blue ink. All bottom corners of the pages have turned brown or black as a sign of the intensive use of the manuscript. Watermark: A knight with a spear and the writing PROPATRIA.
Colophon: ‘Alamat surat ubat'an ini punya ‘Abd-al-Hamid anaknya bin Muhamad Thoha bapanya orang Palemban(g) negerinya Kampung Tuan rumahnya Kapur kampungnya.
