Details

Subjects:

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:

Pali (Khmer Mul).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Summary:

Manuscript fragment with one illuminated folio (half of a text folio and half blank on the verso) and text from the Abhidhamma.

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 two devis.
Probably written and illustrated in the 1850s or 1860s, based on the illumination colors and thin Mul script (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 89-13-335.