Details

Subjects:

Buddhist stories, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Northern Thai with some Pali and Thai (Northern Thai, Lanna; Central Thai).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Narrative text, possibly multiple stories, including a bodhisattva, a brahman, a woman (named Pumala?), and animals. A colophon in Thai language and Central Thai script asks readers not to chasten or admonish the writer.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 29, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per segment.
Foliated in verso left margin, with letters beginning with A but not in order: A, AA, gong, gan, gu.
Written by a single hand, by a scribe probably Chinese or from Yuan, as the text contains a number of foreign or unusual words; scribe possibly named Nemirang, Nemilang, or Nemiranna (Justin McDaniel).
Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 18 cm apart and a cord through the left hole; gilt edges with lacquer in the center of the top and bottom edges.
Possibly written between 1750 and 1850 (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.8 x 55 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 Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1984.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 84-24-1.