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P. Voorhoeve Collection of Batak Manuscript Translations
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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Petrus Voorhoeve was born in 1899 [place unknown]. He worked as a government linguist in the Batak country in the isle of Sumatra from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II. He was the keeper of Oriental printed books and manuscripts at Leiden University Library in 1952 when the late Professor Kaare Gronbech asked him to catalogue the Batak manuscripts in Denmark. Afterward Dr. Voorhoeve cataloged the Batak manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library (Dublin) and in The Royal Library (Copenhagen). He traveled extensively throughout his career to other European and American libraries to perform research on other Indonesian manuscript holdings. He was invited to Princeton University in the 1980s to research and provide catalogue descriptions for the John F. Mason Collection of Batak Manuscripts.
The collection consists primarily of Voorhoeve's English translations of some of the manuscripts in the the John. F. Mason Collection of Batak Manuscripts. Also included are catalogue descriptions, a copy of a Batak Pustaha, and related articles by Voorhoeve and others regarding the John F. Mason Collection of Batak Manuscripts and the Princeton Batak bark manuscripts included in the Robert Garrett Collection and the Scheide Library.
The translations are arranged numerically: their numbers correspond to the manuscript numbers in the John F. Mason Collection of Batak Manuscripts.
Some of the manuscripts found in draft form in the collection came to print in the following publication: Voorhoeve, P. "Four Batak Manuscripts in Princeton," The Princeton University Library Chronicle. v. 30, no. 3 (Spring 1969).
Gift of P. Voorhoeve.
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This collection was processed by Teresa T. Basler in 2003. Finding aid written by Teresa T. Basler in 2003.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Manuscripts, Batak -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Translations into English
- Batak language -- Manuscripts
- Batak (Indonesian people) -- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts. -- 20th century
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Teresa T. Basler
- Finding Aid Date
- 2003
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