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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9562548, member: 2844&quot;]It looks like an Indonesian Lontar book, or palm leaf book.</p><p>Lontar books are the traditional books of Java, Madura and Bali.</p><p>Similar books were used in mainland Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like an oldie, and it is worth having a scholar take a look at it. It is probably one volume of several, together they would be about a historical period, religious content, or a literary work.</p><p><br /></p><p>About Lontar books:</p><p><a href="https://sawidji.com/2022/06/16/lontar-our-ancient-books/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sawidji.com/2022/06/16/lontar-our-ancient-books/" rel="nofollow">https://sawidji.com/2022/06/16/lontar-our-ancient-books/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is called Hanacaraka script, after the first letters, just like alphabet. Javanese, Sundanese (W. Java), Madurese and Balinese are different languages, but they were all written in Hanacaraka script.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hanacaraka:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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