Details

Subjects:

Books -- Thailand.
Books.
Thailand.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Folded books.
Blankbooks.
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Blank folded book from 19th-century Thailand with notes in English on its upper cover.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 30, 2015)
Khoi paper; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
Covers attached, with borders of layers of paper.
Made before 1836 (notes on cover).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 11 x 34.5 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:

Obtained by W.S.W. Ruschenberger while fleet surgeon of the East India Squadron (1835-1837), in Bangkok in 1836, in Philadelphia by February 1866 (notes on cover).
Presented by W.S.W. Ruschenberger while president of the Academy of Natural Sciences (1870-1882) to the Academy of Natural Sciences, 16 May 1876 (notes on cover).
Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 97-122-246.

Contributor:

Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895, former owner.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, former owner.