Details

Subjects:

Thai language -- Study and teaching.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
accordion books.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 19th century.

Language:

Thai, with notes in English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file

Summary:

Second volume of an elementary lesson book on the Thai language, with a collection of word lists, three reading lessons, and later brief annotations in English about the manufacture of the book (note inside upper cover) and the content of the lessons. Missionary Dan Beach Bradley, who introduced the printing press in Siam, included part of this text in his 1879 publication of a collection of Thai works.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on December 15, 2015).
Written in 8 lines per folio.
Black bark paper with text in yellow ink and later English annotations in white ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
Paper covers with borders formed of additional layers of heavy paper and titles written in faded yellow ink.
Written before 1845 (date of death of Emelie Royce Bradley).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 10.3 x 33.1 cm.
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, 2015.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Emilie Royce Bradley (a missionary in Siam, wife of missionary Dan Beach Bradley) to Eliza A. Royce (note on upper cover), before Emilie Royce Bradley's death in 1845.
Gift of Eliza A.R. Jones to her stepson M. Jones, 1852 (pencil note, f. B20, in blank folios after end of text).
Accessioned at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1929.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 29-170-11.

Contributor:

Bradley, E. R. (Emilie Royce), 1811-1845, associated name.
Jones, Eliza A. Royce, former owner.