Details

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens.
Rāma (Hindu deity) -- Art.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Sita (Hindu deity) -- Art.
Sita (Hindu deity).
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Thai (Khom/Khmer).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Summary:

Manuscript fragment with one illuminated folio, 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 Rama and Sita.
Probably written and illustrated in the 1820s or 1830s, based on the use of only four colors (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.2 x 62.5 cm (folded), 25.5 x 62.5 cm (unfolded).
Tape or paper glued to hinge and edges on verso.
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 89-13-334.