Details

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens.
Buddhist monks -- Pictorial works.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Buddhist monks.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Form/Genre:

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

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing a monk removing pamsakulla cloth from a corpse, probably a scene of corpse observation and meditation. Another small illumination of a monster and text in unidentified script on verso.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 17, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per segment.
Written on khoi paper; from manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
Painted in the early 19th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 22.5 x 19.4 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 89-13-416.