Sebuah Versi Baru Hikayat Misa Melayu Berdasarkan MS Or. 832 di Cambridge University Library

Misa Melayu is known as one of the greatest historical works from Perak. This masterpiece from the pen of Raja Chulan during the 18th century became the solidary example of how the art of writing was done by traditional Malay writers in the past. The publication of Misa Melayu by R.O. Winstedt in 1919 has taken interest among scholars to study in depth the value of this work and some have made various claims about this work. Nevertheless, this article is written with an advantage and support of an old Malay manuscript (MS Or. 832) kept within the Cambridge Unversity Library which was not very often read by scholars. During this research, a few key differences has been revealed between the text Misa Melayu published by R.O. Winstedt and the one kept in the Cambridge University Library which includes the title of the work, Hikayat Misa Melayu. This article aims to discuss MS Or. 832 kept within Cambridge Unversity Library walls as a new version of Misa Melayu and therefore open a new discussion regarding the importance of this work in the history of Perak.