Here are two small fragments of the first folio of an old Sundanese manuscript in the National Library of Indonesia (@perpusnas1 ). Written on gebang (talipot palm leave) with the western old Javanese script. They are kept together with old Javanese fragments. 
I curious about this fragment due it uses old Sundanese language. I'm quite sure that it is a prose rather than a poem. The beginning should be the left fragment, because it has a distinctive symbol.
More over the first line said "ndah nihan tapa lekas", where the phrase "ndah nihan" is never used as the beginning of the old Sundanese poem but more common used in the prose texts.
I also quite sure that this is the first folio because one side of the both fragments is empty. Which means the folio was place at the most outer layer. It could not be the last folio since there is no colophon can be identified.
They probably were the same folio but then broken with quite much damages and lost. Even though there are several other fragments on the same bundle but these two are the only old Sundanese text I can find.
Transliteration of Fragment 1 (left)
|O| ndah nihan tapa lkas ja ...
mawarahak jati niskala, ...
ti niskala, ngaraniya, nala ...
|O| ndah nihan tapa lkas ja ...
mawarahak jati niskala, ...
ti niskala, ngaraniya, nala ...
Transliteration of Fragment 2 (right)
... masana tan mtu ...
... [put] ti jati tan hana, [ta na]
... ini luputna ha(n)teuna langgeng tan pangara(n)na
... masana tan mtu ...
... [put] ti jati tan hana, [ta na]
... ini luputna ha(n)teuna langgeng tan pangara(n)na
Translation:
... at the time it was not be born ...
... from the true nothingness, ...
... this is the escape, the none existence, eternal without being called, ...
... at the time it was not be born ...
... from the true nothingness, ...
... this is the escape, the none existence, eternal without being called, ...
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