Details

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Thai (Khom).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, probably showing a hunter picking lotus flowers in a pond to give to Phra Malai. Text on verso.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015)
Written in 6 lines per segment.
Written on khoi paper; from manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is now stored flat.
Written and painted in Thailand in the mid-19th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 23 x 21 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 89-13-417.