The Archival Records from the Digitisation of Minangkabau’s Manuscript Collections in Suraus contain more than 250 manuscripts from West Sumatra, Indonesia. “These manuscripts contain various texts such as Al-Qur’an, Al-Qur’an Translation (Tafsir), Tasawuf, Fiqh, Agiography (The Stories of the Saints), Arabic Grammar, Minangkabau Laws, Kaba, Hikayat, Nazam, Azimat, Letters and Medicine which hold important information for Minangkabau culture and Islamic history….The manuscripts are mostly written on European papers, some are written on traditional paper (Daluang) in the Arabic, Malay and/or Minangkabau language using Arabic or Perso-Arabic letters. They were written and copied in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
