Details

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens.
Jataka stories, Thai -- Pictorial works.
Jataka stories, Thai.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Thai (Khom).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing the demon Punnaka and Vidhura on Punnaka's horse. Details and background color damaged by abrasion. Text from Phra Malai on verso, stained, abraded, and difficult to read.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per segment.
Written and painted on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
Written and painted in central Thailand in the very late 19th or early 20th century (Justin McDaniel).
From same manuscript as Penn Museum 89-13-328.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 26 x 21.7 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, 2014.

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 89-13-327.