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Nissaya text 1700s?

Publication:
1700s?
Format/Description:
Book
1 online resource (18 leaves) : color illustrations
polychrome
Contained In:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 51-9-6
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Subjects:
Buddhas -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist literature, Pali -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist literature, Pali.
Buddhas.
Form/Genre:
Facsimiles.
Sermons.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.
Language:
In Pali (Lanna).
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file
Summary:
Nissaya text, liturgical, possibly the praise of the 28 Buddhas. Three leaves have modern corrections in black marker.
Notes:
Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes slightly more than 22 cm apart; formerly tied through right hole; red lacquer top and bottom edges, gilded left and right edges; most ends frayed and damaged
Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 5 x 58.5 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 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 51-9-6.
Contributor:
Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.