Details

Subjects:

Buddhist literature, Thai -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist stories, Thai -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist stories, Thai.
Buddhist literature, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Glossaries.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.

Language:

In Thai and Pali (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Pedagogical text with Pali words and translations and glosses in Thai about a wheel-turning king named Mahasudassana.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 16, 2015)
Written in 4 lines per leaf.
Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 16 cm apart, edges somewhat damaged.
Possibly written in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 3.8 x 45 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 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 51-9-3.

Contributor:

Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.