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:

Thai (Khom/Khmer).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Summary:

Illuminated folio from a Phra Malai manuscript, with two halves of text folios on the verso.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 15, 2015).
Written in 10 lines per folio.
Khoi paper with text in black; originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but now the illuminated folio is housed open and flat.
Manuscript illustrated with images of Indra and devis, most with blank faces.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.0 x 63.4 cm (folded), 23.5 x 63.4 cm (unfolded).
Tape or paper glued to hinge on verso and tape or paper and a very small piece of another illuminated manuscript glued to the edges of the verso for support.
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 89-13-333.

Contributor:

Lyons, Elizabeth, former owner.