Details

Other Title:

Phra Malai

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Buddhist monks.
Buddhist monks -- Pictorial works.
Indra (Hindu deity) -- Pictorial works.
Indra (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Thai (Khom).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript showing Indra listening to a sermon by Phra Malai. Phra Malai's face has been rubbed away. On the verso is text from the Phra Malai.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per segment.
Written on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
Written and painted in central Siam in the late 19th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.2 x 19.7 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 the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 89-13-414.