He was Sultan Mahmud Syah who acceded to the throne in 1870, at the age of fourteen. In the same year that his palace was seized he died of cholera. Naturally, the manuscript could also have belonged to one of his predecessors. The experts who were consulted by van der Wijck in relation to the manuscript were well-known scholars in their field. In 1877 they became professors at Leiden University.
Bold letters are a later addition in black ink.
An abbreviation of two or three letters, which could not be deciphered.