Details

Subjects:

Pali language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.

Language:

In Pali and Northern Thai (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Collection of leaves from 2 different manuscripts: 28 leaves of a Nissaya text on grammar, divided into eight parts (51-9-1.1), with an associated name, Suvaññasācca; and 23 leaves of another Nissaya text, possibly written by a novice named Caddhaguman (51-9-1.2).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 16, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Written on palm leaves; leaves from one manuscript edged in red lacquer (51-9-1.1).
Foliated with letters of the Lanna alphabet, ga to ngu (51-9-1.1), and ga to kho (51-9-1.2), verso left margin.
One manuscript possibly written in 1143 BE (1786) (colophon, 51-9-1.2); other manuscript undated (51-9-1.1).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 5 x 55.5 cm (51-9-1.1); 6 x 58.8 cm (51-9-1.2)
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 Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (Christina Butler Harris Kneedler, former Presbyterian medical missionary in Thailand with her husband, William Harding Kneedler), 1951.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 51-9-1.

Contributor:

Caddhaguman, scribe.
Suvaññasācca, associated name.
Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.