Details

Other Title:

Phra Malai

Subjects:

Māleyya.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Fragments (object portions)
Folded books.
Illuminations (visual works)
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.
Specimens.

Language:

In Thai (Khom/Khmer).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Summary:

Manuscript fragment that may be part of a Phra Malai manuscript.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 30, 2015).
Written in 8-10 lines per folio.
White khoi paper with writing in black; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
Manuscript illustrated with images of monks.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.8 x 59.8 cm.
Tape or paper glued to hinges for support covers some text.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2014.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 89-13-250.

Contributor:

Lyons, Elizabeth, former owner.