Details

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Lao.
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Lao (Northern Thai, Tham).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

18th-century manuscript from northeast Thailand. Accompanied by a modern printed tag in Thai from the Fine Arts Department certifying permission for the manuscript to leave Thailand.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 10, 2015)
Written in 4 lines per leaf.
Unusually foliated with a combination of letters and numerals.
Written by a poorly trained scribe, lacking tone marks (Justin McDaniel).
Leaves of palm leaf, many damaged, with four holes, two central ones approximately 17.5 cm apart and two at the left and right margins; lacquered edges.
Wooden covers with a cord tied through the two center holes; writing in old Lao inside the lower cover.
Possibly written in the 1780s (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 4 x 56.4 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:

Purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1982.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 82-7-54.