Details

Subjects:

Buddhism -- Rituals.
Buddhist sermons, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Folded books.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Thai (Thai).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

The more formal text (in yellow ink) includes a first-person account of a minor noble, his family, and his estate with reference to rituals performed at his home. Additional notes have been added in chalk by multiple hands, including a sermon on the path and accounts or calculations. Many pages have notes that are casually written and difficult to read.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on December 8, 2015)
Written in 4 lines per segment.
Written on black khoi paper, in yellow ink and white chalk; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
Attached upper cover with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper; lower cover is missing.
Written in south central Thailand (paper origin) between the 1820s and 1840s (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 11.5 x 35 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 the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), 2003.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2003-42-7.