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Das Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Österreich bietet eine Gesamtübersicht über die historischen Buchbestände in den Bibliotheken und Sammlungen Österreichs. Es ist regional gegliedert. Die ersten beiden Bände umfassen das Bundesland Wien. Sie enthalten einen historischen Überblick über die Wiener Bibliotheken und ein eigenes Register. Die weiteren Bände umfassen die Bundesländer Burgenland, Kärnten, Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol und Vorarlberg, wobei jedes Bundesland für sich dargestellt ist. Sie enthalten einen historisch-topographischen Überblick über die Bibliotheken in diesen Bundesländern und ein Gesamtregister, in das das separate Register für Wien inkorporiert ist. Beide Teile enthalten die Vorworte und die Einleitung, sodaß sie für sich benützbar sind. In Anlage und Registergestaltung entspricht das Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Österreich dem Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland.
European scholars, colonial administrators, missionaries, bibliophiles and others were the main collectors of Malay books in the nineteenth century, both in manuscript or printed form. Among these persons were many well-known names in the field of Malay literature and culture like Raffles, Marsden, Crawfurd, Klinkert, van der Tuuk, von Dewall, Roorda, Favre, Maxwell, Overbeck, Wilkinson and Skeat, to name only a few. Their collections were often handed over to public libraries where they form an important part of the relevant Oriental or Southeast Asian manuscript collections.
Therefore the knowledge of the intellectual culture of the Malay Peninsula and the Malay World in general depended very much on these manuscripts and printed books collected often by chance or in a rather unsystematic way. The collections reflect in a strong sense the interests of its administrative or philologist collectors: court histories, genealogies of aristocratic lineages, law collections (adat-istiadat as well as undangundang) or prose belles-lettres build a vast bulk of these collections, while Islamic religious texts and poetry forms popular in the 19th century (especially syair) are fairly underrepresented. Malay manuscripts and books located in religious institutions like mosques or pondok/pesantren schools have not been searched for; until today there are more or less no systematic studies of these collections. As in some statistics religious texts build about 20% of all existing Malay manuscripts, their neglect by Europeans scholars leads to a distorted view of the literary culture in the Malay language.